Reply #268: That's not as good an argument as you'd think, really. If you look at the record of legal [View All]

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decisions in the US, almost all the "good" ones come from the heyday of the Warren Court.

The rest tend strongly *not* to come down on what we would probably think of as "our" side. History is packed solid with decisions against labor, against the First Nations people, against Black people, against the poor, against peace....it's pretty sickening when you really look at it. Decisions that attempt to restrict our natural human rights are part and parcel of that.

I think it got off onto the wrong foot at the very start, when Jay was appointed the first Chief Justice. You know, John Jay, Mr. "Those Who Own The Country Should Run It" Federalist?