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March 22, 2015

The Case that Will Tell Us If the Supreme Court Justices Are Just Politicians in Robes

by Robert Brent Toplin

A bad ruling in King v. Burwell – the Obamacare case – cannot match the evil of Dred Scott, but it could damage the Court’s reputation just as much.