#1 - Plessy v. Furgeson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) - legitimized state laws re-establishing racial segregation under the guise of "separate but equal".
#2 -Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) - imprisoned Japanese-Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry.
#3 - Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. __ (2022) - abolished a fundamental liberty for the first time -- women's reproductive freedom -- reversing long standing precedents Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
#4 - Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (2005) - started tearing down the Wall of Separation of Church and State -- a bedrock American principle enshrined in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment -- by allowing a Fraternal Order of Eagles Ten Commandments monument remain on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol. Thus, the Court advanced Christian nationalism by paving the way for American Legion v. American Humanist Association (2019) (Christian cross on public property), Carson v. Makin (2022) (funding religious schools) and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (above) (conservative Christian morality).
#5 - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. 558 U.S. 310 (2010) - injected corruption into U.S. elections by holding the First Amendment's free speech clause prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including nonprofit corporations, labor unions and other associations. In other words, judicial alchemy turned corporations into people.
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