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Due Process And Fundamental Rights, Martin A. Schwartz
Due Process And Fundamental Rights, Martin A. Schwartz
Touro Law Review
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Three Supreme Court “Failures” And A Story Of Supreme Court Success, Corinna Barrett Lain
Three Supreme Court “Failures” And A Story Of Supreme Court Success, Corinna Barrett Lain
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Plessy v. Ferguson. Buck v. Bell. Korematsu v. United States. Together, these three decisions legitimated ‘separate but equal,’ sanctioned the forced sterilization of thousands, and ratified the removal of Japanese Americans from their homes during World War II. By Erwin Chemerinsky’s measure in The Case Against the Supreme Court, all three are Supreme Court failures—cases in which the Court should have protected vulnerable minorities, but failed to do so. Considered in historical context, however, a dramatically different impression of these cases, and the Supreme Court that decided them, emerges. In two of the cases—Plessy and Buck—the Court’s ruling reflected the …