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To: wagglebee
The Dred Scott decision was overturned because it was both bad jurisprudence and immoral—just like Roe v. Wade.

Taney gets a bad rap, IMHO. Scott was decided 7-2, and clearly grounded in the Constitution and its history. Roe was not. The analogy is a bad one.

ML/NJ

7 posted on 05/20/2007 9:22:29 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

I think the Dred Scott Decision is used because it retrospect it is so blatantly immoral. However, purely in terms of horrible decisions, I think it makes far more sense to compare Roe to Plessy v. Ferguson (which is also the only SCOTUS decision which a future SCOTUS subsequently overturned, Dred Scott was made moot by post-Civil War amendments).


9 posted on 05/20/2007 9:30:19 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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