A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court

The justices in the majority on the United States Supreme Court are a danger to democracy too. On appeal, the Hawaii Supreme Court found that “the prosecution used hair and fiber evidence” that “science has since proven . U.S. Supreme Court precedent holds that the government’s unknowing use of false evidence doesn’t violate a defendant’s constitutional rights. In 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its infamous Dred Scott ruling, holding that no black American descended from slaves could ever be a U.S. citizen. THE CASE BEFORE the Hawaii Supreme Court did not warrant such an impassioned condemnation of the U.S. Supreme Court.