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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Declare that pi is 3?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

So the worst decisions in its history are probably something like:

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857): Black Americans, free or enslaved, could not be U.S. citizens, and Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): Upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine AKA Jim Crow laws

  • Korematsu v. United States (1944): Upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII as a wartime necessity.

  • Citizens United v. FEC (2010): Corporations and unions can spend unlimited money on independent political advertising, citing free speech.

For third worst I think I’d have to pick Korematsu