by The Shadow
Something wicked still prowls our legislatures and courthouses.
In the Shadow’s last missive (Zombies and Muslims) it was observed that the current political environment threatens to disinter monsters known as “zombie jurisprudence,” creatures that could stalk American Muslims as readily as those which have historically pursued other classes of innocent people.
Korematsu v. United States, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and Cherokee Nation v. Georgia were Supreme Court cases that failed to erect constitutional protections against abuses of governmental power. Such zombie jurisprudence, according to modern sensibilities, should remain dead and buried in a cemetery of legal anachronisms – never to be disturbed or disinterred.