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Several of the speakers, including former President Jimmy Carter, tied the historic nature of the event to controversies of the moment, including the Trayvon Martin case, New York's police frisking policy and the Supreme Court ruling this summer that overturned part of the Voting Rights Act.

Speaking of Hillary, thoughts about Sen. Warren planting her populist flag on the way the budget deal overturned part of Dodd-Frank disallowing banks to speculate with taxpayer money?

Mr. Skilling is still in jail awaiting resentencing after the Supreme Court overturned part of his conviction.

And unlike Citizens United, which overturned part of a law that predated Mr. Obama's presidency, the health care law is his signature domestic accomplishment.

In Boston on Thursday, a district court judge overturned part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), declaring unconstitutional its ban on federal recognition of same-sex marriages that are legal at the state level.

After the Supreme Court overturned part of the Voting Rights Act, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. went to court seeking to use other elements of the law to challenge a Texas statute.

Heyburn overturned parts of Kentucky's same-sex marriage ban on February 12 and set an effective date for his ruling of March 21.

Attorney General Jack Conway opted not to appeal Heyburn's decision that overturned parts of a 2004 state constitutional amendment on gay marriage.

His advisers were emboldened last week when the court, in a 5-to-4 ruling, overturned parts of the Violence Against Women Act, in a rebuke to Congress's efforts to use interstate commerce rules to preempt state powers.

The US supreme court's landmark June 2013 decision overturned parts of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that said marriage can only exist between a man and a woman.

As in Roberts's opinion in Shelby v. Holder, in which the Court overturned parts of the Voting Rights Act last year, the people we think of as having the power are, in fact, embattled, the victims of schemes, driven by popular opinion, meant to "restrict the political participation of some in order to enhance the relative influence of others," as Roberts put it.