What are the best and worst Supreme Court decisions of all time?

[dude58677]

Best:

1) New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen

2) Dc vs Heller

3) Printz vs US

4) Dobbs vs Jackson

5) EPA vs West Virginia

6) Weeks vs United States

Worst:

1) McCulloch vs Maryland
2) Selective Draft Law Cases
3) Kormatsu vs United States
4) Roe vs Wade
5) United States vs O’Brien
6) National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

 

[fedupinmo]

Worst: Wickard v Filburn.

 

[dude58677]

Worst: Wickard v Filburn.

Forgot about that. It could get overturned esp with the present court.

 

[Sonny Tufts]

Just off the top of my head:

Best (in no particular order, except the first):

Marbury v. Madison
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Texas v. Johnson
Engel v. Vitale
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Worst (in no particular order):

Wickard v. Filburn, which led to
Raich v. Gonzales
Buck v. Bell
Korematsu vs United States

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius is two-headed. Good: it declined to extend the Commerce Clause to authorize the requirement to buy health insurance. Bad: it upheld a penalty as a tax and failed to properly analyze the Direct Tax issue.

 

[dude58677]

The reasoning behind both the Selective Draft Law Cases and Wickard has so many holes you can drive a truck through them. The Wickard case states that a product that is produced and sold within a State effects something interstate? How?

The Selective Draft Law Cases justified the draft based on Congresses power to raise and support armies along with the foregoing necessary proper clause. The militia(armed populace) exists to prevent the need for a large standing army. The argument then becomes well but the militia was compulsory(may or may not be true) so then that makes the military draft constitutional. But the militia draws the need for a standing army so how does that give Congress the power to conscript armies. There is also no analogous law for a military draft during the war of 1812. It was proposed but shot down for constitutional reasons. I just don’t see the logic for the Selective Draft Law Cases.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Roe v. Wade being one of the worst is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

Worst Matt the paraplegic vs US that was dismissed because he had no standing.

 

[dude58677]

Worst Matt the paraplegic vs US that was dismissed because he had no standing.

There are thousands of court cases submitted to the court each year. There are only so many cases that can be heard by the court.