Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted - Ian Millhiser
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Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its inception, the justices of the Supreme Court have shaped a nation where children toiled in coal mines, where Americans could be forced into camps because of their race, and where a woman could be sterilized against her will by state law. The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy. Nor is the modern Court a vast improvement, with its incursions on voting rights and its willingness to place elections for sale.
In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of the everyday people who have suffered the most from it. America ratified three constitutional amendments to provide equal rights to freed slaves, but the justices spent thirty years largely dismantling these amendments. Then they spent the next forty years rewriting them into a shield for the wealthy and the powerful. In the Warren era and the few years following it, progressive justices restored the Constitution’s promises of equality, free speech, and fair justice for the accused. But, Millhiser contends, that was an historic accident. Indeed, if it weren’t for several unpredictable events, Brown v. Board of Education could have gone the other way.
In Injustices, Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court has seized power for itself that rightfully belongs to the people’s elected representatives, and has bent the arc of American history away from justice.
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
July 7th, 2018
Sounds interesting, but perhaps one might should balance Ian Millhiser’s left-leaning complaints with some criticism from the other side. Mark Levin’s Men In Black might not be a bad place to start. I’ve disagreed with many courts’ decisions, and politically motivated jurisprudence, including homosexual marriage, homosexual rights above religious beliefs, free speech, and privacy, infanticide, protection of slavery, forced sterilizations, right to work laws, FDR’s price and wage fixing, etc.
September 12th, 2018
Jiminy Cricket - are you saying that religious belief is important? It isn’t. If you believe in gods then you’re mentally ill. Religious people are insane.
November 21st, 2022
Great book. Really shows how much the Supreme Court is used to consolidate power for the white, rich males in this country. Just like the founders wanted. They’ve used the court to keep racist laws in spite of what the majority of the people want. Allowing minority ruling.
Try this book out if you want to see what goes on behind the curtains
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