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Can the Supreme Court save us from ourselves?
When the Supreme Court says something is or isn't constitutional, what does that really mean? What are the effects, or lack thereof, of their decisions? And what do we do if we don't agree with what they say?
Today Linda Monk, author of The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, walks us through four times in US History that the Supreme Court was not the be-all-end-all decision maker.
Here are some links to shows we reference in the episode:
Dred Scott v Sandford
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
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