Howard Zinn on the illiberal tradition of the US Supreme Court (2005)

"Don’t Despair about the Supreme Court"

... It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice. ...

https://progressive.org/op-eds/howard-zinn-despair-supreme-court/

... which isn't to say, of course, that the tendency shouldn't be fought tooth and nail.

Zinn is best known as author of A People's History of the United States,

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