Today’s post is simply a couple of long quotations that I thought may prove useful and enlightening, although it relates directly to this superb essay by Martha S. Jones at the Washington Post column Made By History. In it, Jones urges readers to look deeper at what, for many people, was a snap reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Hawai’i: looking for a suitably “egregious” example from the past, many compared the decision to Dred Scott v. Sandford. There is certainly something to that comparison, Jones argues, but “which lessons we draw from the past matters. The  Read more