Archives for December, 2020

V’s Legalese: The Missing Opinion in “Brown v. Board of Education”

Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes. Sometimes it later fixes them. But it doesn’t always admit it. It can be a tricky thing for members of a respectable institution to admit that they or their predecessors on the same bench were wrong. Do it seldom; the Court loses credibility, especially when the overruling is plainly […]