Who's Afraid of the Supreme Court?
Did the court hold too much power when Andrew Jackson so brazenly defied the court's 1832 ruling in Worcester v. Georgia? After the ruling went against the president, he claimed, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." Of course, the statement was rhetorical because there was nothing the court could do. Or did the court have too much power when it reversed years of segregationist practices with its 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
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