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In reply to the discussion: Worst Supreme Court decision of all time [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)This is my reasoning on each
1. I agree, Dred Scott is the worst from the standpoint of its impact on the equal rights of a group of Americans who the Supreme Court should have seen as its duty to protect. From an impact perspective on a vulnerable minority, it is one of my three worst.
2. Bush v Gore is the worst from the standpoint of its impact on the Democratic process of free and fair elections and for its butchering of the equal protection clause, which hundreds of Constitutional lawyers wrote about in protest. As others have noted its impossible to ignore the resultant impact of the Iraq war and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the U.S. crippling its moral authority to protest torture and illegal detention by the improperly installed administration committing those crimes.
3. Citizens United is the worst from the standpoint of, for all intents and purposes, institutionalizing corruption on a grand scale, again, having a massive impact on the Democratic process of free and fair elections and misinterpreting the first amendment. Money<>speech