Minority Rule: The US Is Not a Democracy, with Prof. Aziz Rana
Rania Khalek Dispatches
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The Left's Criticization of the Supreme Court
The left has criticized the supreme court in the past when it struck down progressive legislation passed by congress. And then they praised the supreme court after things like brown versus board of education, a in 19 54 was thought to have ed racial segregation in schools. So do you think tha the few achievements of the court to which american liberals or the left can to would have been achieved through other means if the supreme court did not exist? Yes. I mean, i'll say that my basic view is that the way that rights protections and critical rights protections,. Has actually been facilitated is overwhelmingly a combination of mass movement politics and legislative achievements.
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