This excellent interview with the fine American historian and law scholar Paul Finkelman is part of the 1619 project. It is full of information about how bad the Supreme Court has been from near the start and containing much about how bad the slave-power enhancing features of the Constitution have been from the beginning. I hadn't realized that the 1800 election that brought the slave owner Jefferson to power was the first one decided by the Electoral College, for example.
Much of what he said was known to me before in general but not in the level of detail and analysis that Paul Finkelman brings. It's worth the seventy minutes to listen to it once and I'm listening over and over again to absorb the information.
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