Supreme Court rejection of reparations would deepen its legitimacy crisis

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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. In other words, such a move would only serve to point out the continued victimization of black Americans at the hands of the judiciary. It could even encourage activists to pursue different pathways to action that might include more state and locally based reparations efforts. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 594