HOUSTON, Pa. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) would appoint Supreme Court justices who would safeguard a half-century of civil rights gains, his wife said Friday. "Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, we are reminded now more than ever that we need a Supreme Court to protect our hard-won victories," Teresa Heinz Kerry told the Pennsylvania State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites). "John Kerry will appoint judges that interpret our Constitution and don't go there for political reasons to divide our country," she added...