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Federal review of state decisions
With few exceptions, Congress has not given federal courts exclusive authority to enforce rights arising under federal law.
To put it differently, state and federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction with respect to most claims of federal right.
To insure uniformity in the meaning of national law, however, state interpretations are subject to Supreme Court review.
It may be noted, parenthetically, that to evade `` desegregation '' an ex-Justice and former southern governor has urged Congress to abolish this reviewing authority.
The result, of course, would be that federal law inevitably would mean different things in different states.
It would also probably mean different things within the same state -- depending upon what court ( state or federal ) rendered decision.

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