“emanating penumbras”
Worst words in a Supreme Court Opinion ever except maybe some in Dred Scott,
Whatever they are the Supreme Court Justices are not God’s that might be a good thing.
Dred Scott confirmed to the Constitution and to original intent.
The problem was, the peculiar institution existed in a kind of imaginary space where certain acts were severed from their natural consequences, which proved to be unsustainable.
Roger Taney wrote his decision secure in the conviction that he was PREVENTING civil war. Had he been correct, he would be a national hero.
But although his opinion is drafted well, it ignored the laws of nature and of nature’s God, which does not work out well in the long run.