The Dissent Everyone Knows is Right (Slaughterhouse)

Found this on SCOTUSblog & absolutely agree with it.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/the-dissent-everyone-knows-was-right/

If Dredd Scott was the worst thing to come out of the Court, Slaughterhouse has to be the second worst...

Essentially, an entire segment of the 14th Amendment was rendered moot by the Court, which declared that text to protect a small set of largely irrelevant (and never threatened) 'federal rights'....

While the court later conjured up Substantive Due Process to paper over this, doing so murders the language (how can the substance of a law commit a process violation) and it does not entirely undo the wrong that was originally done.....