Editing Earl Warren (section)

====Civil rights====
{{see also|Civil rights movement}}

Civil rights continued to be a major issue facing the Warren Court in the 1960s. In ''Peterson v. Greenville'' (1963), Warren wrote the Court's majority opinion, which struck down local ordinances that prohibited restaurants from serving black and white individuals in the same room.{{Sfn|Cray|1997|pp=408–410}} Later that decade, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] in ''[[Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States]]''. The Court held that the [[Commerce Clause]] empowered the federal government to prohibit racial segregation in [[public accommodations]] like hotels. The ruling effectively overturned the 1883 ''[[Civil Rights Cases]]'' in which the Supreme Court had held that Congress could not regulate racial discrimination by private businesses.{{Sfn|Cray|1997|pp=441–442}} The Court upheld another landmark civil rights act, the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], by holding that it was valid under the authority provided to Congress by the [[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifteenth Amendment]].{{Sfn|Cray|1997|pp=469–470}}

In 1967, Warren wrote the majority opinion in the landmark case of ''[[Loving v. Virginia]]'' in which the Court struck down state [[Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States|laws banning interracial marriage]]. Warren was particularly pleased by the ruling in ''Loving'' since he had long regretted that the Court had not taken up the similar case of ''[[Naim v. Naim]]'' in 1955.{{Sfn|Cray|1997|pp=449–452}} In ''[[Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections]]'' (1966), the Court struck down [[poll taxes in the United States|poll taxes]] in state elections.{{Sfn|Cray|1997|pp=470–471}} In another case, ''[[Bond v. Floyd]]'', the Court required the Georgia legislature to seat the newly elected legislator [[Julian Bond]]; members of the legislature had refused to seat Bond because he opposed the [[Vietnam War]].{{Sfn|Cray|1997|pp=484–485}}