A Supreme Court strike-down of reparations would further erode public trust in the judiciary.
Evidence
But why would I expect the Supreme Court, particularly today’s Court, to find any such legislation constitutional, when they could still choose to apply the Fourteenth Amendment and strike the legislation as unconstitutional? First, if the Supreme Court were to find reparations legislation unconstitutional, it would add to the already low regard that a majority of Americans have for the judicial branch of our government. Almost 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is currently doing. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 594
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader skepticism about originalism and judicial legitimacy seen elsewhere in her reading on legal institutions.