What was the WORST Supreme Court decision of all time?

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My choice would be Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886), which dealt with the taxation of railroad properties. This case is often cited as essentially defining corporations as "juristic persons," though the Court never reached equal protection claims under the 14th Amendment. Nevertheless, one of then Chief Justice Morrison Waite's announcement prior to oral arguments basically stated that the Court's belief that equal protection applied directly to corporations. Still, this statement would greatly influence later courts, becoming part of American corporate law without being actually implemented by legal statute. For this reason, this case is considered an unprecedented expansion of constitutional rights to US corporations....Show more

Roe vs. Wade. This made abortions legal. Norma McCorvey (Jane
Roe) was a lesbian, battered wife, abused drugs and alcohol. She
was in Reform School in Gainesville, Texas, pregnant at 16, a botched
suicide attempt and sold drugs for a living, tended bar hangouts and
worked as a carnival barker. From the burden of being Jane Roe, she
hid from the lie that her 3rd pregnancy resulted from rape...the lie
that led to Roe vs. Wade. She said she thought that was the only way to get an abortion. She later wrote in her book "My Life Roe vs Wade, and Freedom of Choice" that she is no longer a supporter of abortion rights. She said she's "pro-life" and believes she's always been "pro-life" but didn't know it. Since she was young and ignorant, she actually was USED in this decision of the Supreme Court. So,
now she wishes it had never ever happened. The Supreme Court
should have been more thorough in their investigation of this case
before making this horrible decision that has snuffed out the lives
of millions of innocent babies since 1973....Show more

Like many others, Roe v. Wade would be my first choice as well.

There are others, as well, mostly dealing with race.

Drett Scott v. Sandford : The court ruled that slaves cannot become citizens and that the federal government has no authority to limit slavery.

Plessy v. Ferguson : "Separate but equal"

Korematsu v. United States: American citizens who were Japanese can be deprived of their rights. This was in 1944, so I assume it had to do with the prosecution of the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor bombings....Show more

Bush Gore by far! It set America back by 8 horrible tears ,instead of leading the world in the production of green energy technology and getting off foreign oil, Bush Took us to Iraq to fight an unconstitutional war. That makes the aprox. 1,000,000 deaths murder and Bush a war criminal! Much Better than Gore and his "clean the earth" thing....Show more

Roe v wade! Because that's an innocent life that's never had a chance!...Show more