Very well reasoned logic also describes why Chief Justice Taney felt it necessary to make all blacks of African descent subhuman before the law in the Dred Scott decision. Taney was called the greatest legal mind of his generation.
The process of law which we inherited does allow for the injection of common sense when such “well reasoned logic of law” leads us to a most bitter and toxic point.
Juries are one source of such protective mechanisms, special writs like mandamus, habeas corpus are another.
In this case a more grounded Judge would have allowed such entry, even if he had to suggest it directly.
You're comparing this ruling to Dred Scott? That's rich.