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...merely partisan choices. And every major decision the court gets wrong does lasting damage to its standing. The court has made mistakes in other critical moments in our nation's history, and it has never completely lived them down: the Dred Scott decision in 1857, upholding slavery, and Koramatsu v. United States, which approved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Court Recover? | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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