The social contract we have with the SCOTUS is that we give them lifetime employment in exchange for them not worrying about the political implications of their decisions. Their decisions are supposed to be purely predicated upon constitutionality.
They screwed up on Dred vs. Scott. They screwed up on a few other minor findings. They screwed up on Roe vs. Wade because there were a bunch of libtard SCOTUS justices. They have come to learn they screwed up big time on Berg vs. Obama because they were afraid of riots coming to their homes.
Well, riots are about to come to their homes.
They would have been better off if they had stuck to their lane the entire time. It is too late for them to get back into their own lane, they allowed a usurper to become president.
They screwed up on Dred vs. Scott.
The plaintiff was Etheldred Scott. The case was Scott v. Sandford. The court decided the Circuit Court had lacked jurisdiction, and that the Supreme Court therefore lacked jurisdiction. The Supreme Court remanded the case to the Circuit Court with instructions to dismiss for want of jurisdiction.
Jurisdiction in the case was claimed on the grounds of diversity of state citizenship. It was claimed the owner was John Sanford, a citizen of New York and the defendant was Dred Scott, a citizen of Missouri. The Supreme Court of Missouri, in a prior proceeding, had decided that according to Missouri state law, Scott was not a citizen of Missouri. In interpreting state law, the final authority is the highest court of the state. As Scott was not a citizen of Missouri, the claim of jurisdiction by diversity of state citizenship failed.
As stated by the Court, 60 U.S. 393, 454 (1857)
Upon the whole, therefore, it is the judgment of this court, that it appears by the record before us that the plaintiff in error is not a citizen of Missouri, in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution; and that the Circuit Court of the United States, for that reason, had no jurisdiction in the case, and could give no judgment in it. Its judgment for the defendant must, consequently, be reversed, and a mandate issued, directing the suit to be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
It should also be noted that Sanford was not the real owner. The owner was Calvin Chaffee, an abolitionist Republican congressman from Massachusetts.