The History of the Supreme Court

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There are a few periods in american history where i think the supreme court did a good job of honoring the constitution and our laws. Those periods are extremely rare. The first time they took out this power to strike down federal laws for real was dred scott. This is the supreme court that handed down plus e v ferguson, which blessed separate but equal. They spent the next 30 or forty years basically writing those amendments out of the constitution. For almost all the courts history, it has been a fundamentally malign institution.

The Supreme Court overturned a 49-year-old precedent that secured the right to an abortion. Irin Carmon from New York magazine breaks down the case and Vox’s Ian Millhiser argues the Supreme Court is undermining democracy.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collette, fact checked by Victoria Chamberlin and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, re-uploaded by Efim Shapiro and hosted by Noel King.

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