How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part VII: Concentration Camps and the End
This is the last installment in a series on the nadir, or low point, of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the period from 1937 to 1944, when the court stopped protecting the Constitution’s limits on the federal government. Our Constitution has never fully recovered....
How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part VI: Crushing Civil Liberties
The first, second, third, fourth and fifth installments in this series traced how the Supreme Court responded to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to break constitutional limits and create a powerful federal government. After trying to balance the demands of...