108 Video: The Surprising Wretched History of the Supreme Court

Ian Millhiser, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and author of Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted, explains the regressive history of the Supreme Court. He also discusses the historical accident of the progressive nature of the Warren Court and explains why FDR wanted the Supreme Court out of economic policy.