Whether you agree as to whether this is the most dangerous Court since Taney's (the case @kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes here) there's another key point about the comparison:
Taney's Court had only a fraction of the power and authority over American politics & society that Roberts' Court does 1/
I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
Probably natural to make comparisons to the Dred Scott Court as the standard bearer for awfulness. But also important to remember Dred Scott was ignored by several states in 1857, & then by the Republican Congress during the Civil War. Most 19th c Americans did not subscribe to judicial supremacy 2/
Roberts' Court is as powerful as any Supreme Court has ever been. And it has spent the past few years accumulating even more power, as many scholars like @joshchafetz.bsky.social have argued: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 3/
IMHO, every piece on #SCOTUS's recent radical decisions (especially those invoking "history and tradition") should emphasize the unprecedented nature of the Court's power in our history--power that was never intended by the founding generation these justices claim to revere. /fin