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The Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Adam J. Kolber (Brooklyn): Supreme Judicial Bullshit. The Supreme Court’s big abortion hypocrisy: The court lets crisis pregnancy centers have it both ways. How to resist bad Supreme Court rulings: Martha S. Jones on what Dred Scott teaches us about thwarting bad law. Justice Sotomayor is showing her liberal peers on SCOTUS how to be a potent minority voice. This is no time for liberal despair: It’s time for a bottom-up progressive movement to counter a conservative Supreme Court. Don’t pack the courts: Liberals should seek not to emulate President Trump’s contempt for democratic institutions and the rule of law by rigging the judiciary. Is the Supreme Court’s legitimacy undermined in a polarized age?