But the bigger question for a white American during the civil rights era or a man during the rise of feminism was whether they recognized the underlying injustice that the remedies were designed to address. Which brings us to two little-noticed memos penned by Roberts when he was a young lawyer helping to shape legal policy in Ronald Reagan's White House from 1982 to 1986. One of the women's rights issues at the time was whether women should get equal pay for comparable work, and a Washington state "equal worth" case was winding its way through the federal courts. |
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