Judicial Review 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/8/2022
The Supreme Court Isn't Supposed to be this Powerful
by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan
"Judicial supremacy is an institutional arrangement brought to cultural ascendancy by white people who wanted to undo Reconstruction and the rise of organized labor that had followed."
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6/5/2022
The Dobbs Decision Punctures the Supreme Court's Sacred Mythology
by Alan J. Singer
The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/16/2021
Why Let the Supreme Court Dominate Democracy?
by Nikolas Bowie
Liberals have been conditioned to look to the Supreme Court of Brown v. Board of Education as a protector of democracy. What if the court's dominant historical legacy is the body of decisions that enabled the rise of Jim Crow in the first place?
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SOURCE: In These Times
10/13/2020
To Tame a Far-Right Supreme Court, Let’s Revive This Forgotten Proposal from 1922
by Leon Fink
Instead of court packing, a Democratic legislative majority should focus on reducing the absolute power of judicial review to check the undemocratic nature of the court's majority bloc.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/22/2020
Down With Judicial Supremacy!
by Jamelle Bouie
The power of the courts to define the meaning of the Constitution has been challenged by legislative, executive and popular action at different times in American history. If that prospect seems scary, remember that it's the process that overthrew the Dred Scott decision as the law of the land, argues NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie.
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