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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 58th day of the year.
On this day in 1922, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported that the Supreme Court validated the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote. Chief Justice Louis Brandeis, known for his progressive rulings, authored the decision that declared the Women’s Suffrage movement to be constitutional. This decision was in response to a lawsuit by businessman and lawyer Charles F. Fairchild, who had challenged the 19th Amendment’s validity. The Supreme Court ruled that, as a private citizen, Fairchild had no standing on his lawsuit, which charged that the amendment had not been validly adopted. This premise — and Fairchild’s case — were dismissed as inaccurate; several states had already ratified the 19th Amendment.
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