When the U.S.Supreme Court invalidated a Virginia statute prohibiting interracial marriages in the 1967 case, it asserted its power to

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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1967 case in question, Loving v. Virginia, involved the court reviewing a state action - namely, Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. The court asserted its power to review state actions and laws that go against the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, specifically the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Therefore, the correct choice is B, "review state actions."