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Rachel Shelden@rachelshelden.bsky.social |
Whether you agree as to whether this is the most dangerous Court since Taney's (the case @kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes here) there's another key point about the comparison:
Taney's Court had only a fraction of the power and authority over American politics & society that Roberts' Court does 1/
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་
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EXCELLENT thread. As you said: "Roberts' Court is as powerful as any Supreme Court has ever been."
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3 Dog Dad
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Yet almost every decision includes some form of "stop freaking out, this is really a very narrow decision that won't change much" in the majority opinion.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Excellent point!
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Rachel Shelden
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Probably natural to make comparisons to the Dred Scott Court as the standard bearer for awfulness. But also important to remember Dred Scott was ignored by several states in 1857, & then by the Republican Congress during the Civil War. Most 19th c Americans did not subscribe to judicial supremacy 2/
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