Word: dredded
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...institution that makes principled decisions of law--not merely partisan choices. And every major decision the court gets wrong does lasting damage to its standing. The court has made mistakes in other critical moments in our nation's history, and it has never completely lived them down: the Dred Scott decision in 1857, upholding slavery, and Koramatsu v. United States, which approved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...
...Jesse Jackson says the Supreme Court's action was equivalent to the Dred Scott decision - and we all know where the Dred Scott decision led. (Nonetheless, Jackson, with his demagogue's mastery of footwork, phoned the President-elect to talk unity...
...legal fight that splashed read and blue paint all the way up the Supreme Court steps. They were cynical about politics before; now they know how far politics goes. But it wasn't the stuff of revolution then and it won't be now. Unless Jesse "this is Dred Scott" Jackson really catches...
...Philadelphia - where Gore has been told that a huge Democratic margin is vital to taking the state as a whole - Gore actually reminded a black congregation that way back when, "strict constructionist" meant Dred Scott and three-fifths of a person, and that of course he much preferred Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas. And that was after he reminded them that everyone has to choose between "good and evil...
...comparison, then at least pretty much the same old American thing. The dilemmas remain. The Supreme Court in recent days has handed down decisions on gays in the Boy Scouts, Miranda rights, prayer at high school football games, and - disgracefully - on partial birth abortion. Whitman's day had the Dred Scott decision, which denied American citizenship to blacks. The Supreme Court, never truly the last word on anything, has much to answer...