The Left Shouldn't Be Afraid of the Conservative Legal Movement

The court is generally not an ally to the powerless. It is substantially shaped by public opinion. The republicans adurin reconstruction, you know, they appointed all these staunch republicans and union veterans who promptly wrote black people out of the fourteenth amendment. So there's a couple of lessons there. Number two, the court can essentially ignore the constitution when it fees like it doesn't matter what the circumstances are. And three, i think it is important in particular for Americans to look at the history of americans defying the court in particular ways.