He was unequivocal in accepting the reasoning in Brown v. Board of Education , the landmark 1954 school desegregation case , and the result in Griswold v. Connecticut , a 1965 decision that struck down a law that made the use of contraceptives a crime and served as a basis for later cases protecting abortion and gay rights .
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