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Few American establishments have inflicted higher suffering on common people than the Supreme Court docket of america. Since its inception the justices of the Supreme Court docket have formed a region where children toiled in coal mines, where People in america could have no choice but into camps for their race, and where a woman could be sterilized against her will by express law. With this powerful indictment of your venerated establishment, Ian Millhiser explains to the history of the Supreme Court docket through the eyes of the everyday people who have suffered the most from it. America ratified three constitutional amendments to provide similar protection under the law to freed slaves, however the justices put in 30 years basically dismantling these amendments. They spent another 40 years rewriting them into a shield for the prosperous and the powerful. In Injustices, Millhiser argues that the Supreme Court docket has seized electricity for itself that rightfully belongs to the people's elected reps and has bent the arc of American background away from justice.