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S THE COLD WAR AND THE COURT: AFFECTS OF IDEOLOGICAL RIVALS ON SUPREME COURT DECISIONS The rise in the popularity of communism in the middle of the 20th century posed a serious threat to the liberal democratic ideology in America. Communists critiqued capitalist nations, like the United States, because of the economic stratification and class oppression within their borders. The American government, in order to ensure its prosperity, needed to portray the United States as a stable, just and equal society despite domestic and economic tension America that plagued the nation at the time. In an effort to look united and prosperous in light of the rise of competing ideologies, particularly communism, during the 20th century, the Supreme Court of the United States of America allowed legislation that exceeded the Constitutional powers granted to Congress and the executive, particularly in regards to civil rights and education; moreover, this judicial activism waned as the...

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