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In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court is way to the right of where it was when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. King saw the High Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren (a Republican appointee of President Dwight D. Eisenhower), advance civil liberties with historic decisions like Loving v. Virginia (1967), Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). In an op-ed published by the Guardian on Martin Luther King Day 2024, two long-time civil rights activists — Martin Luther King III (MLK’s oldest son, now 66) and Arndrea Waters King (King III’s wife) — warn that the Robe…