Manisha Sinha: Historian here except for brief periods in its history the Supreme Court has been an entrenched obstacle to the expansion of American democracy hiding under the cloak of the Constitution even when they eviscerate it. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

Historian here except for brief periods in its history the Supreme Court has been an entrenched obstacle to the expansion of American democracy hiding under the cloak of the Constitution even when they eviscerate it. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Says Prosecutors Overstepped With Jan. 6 Chargewww.nytimes.com The decision concerned the scope of an obstruction charge to address accounting fraud and the destruction of evidence. Among the defendants facing it is former President Donald Trump.

I just grew up at the wrong time. My formative years were the aberration in American history and I'm irrevocably imprinted.

Yeah the Warren court seems more like an aberration now. I can’t believe it was accused of “judicial activism” by these unhinged people.

Yeah, well, that was always motivated rhetoric of the moment, just like it's a problem when the government permits gay marriage but not when it plucks books out of libraries. There's no logic or consistency to be found here, merely and increasingly naked agenda of oppression.

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