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Religion, "Standing," and the Supreme Court's Role
Black, Charles
Black, Charles
Abstract
As might be expected of an institution engaged in catching up with itself, the Court has in late years, in many of its most important decisions, been giving pragmatic affirmance to the obvious. It has decided that segregation of Negroes constitutes an "assertion of their inferiority." It has held that a man charged with crime cannot be said to enjoy due process of law unless he has the counsel of someone who understands the law's processes. It has decided that the constitutional guarantee against unlawful searches and seizures shall actually be implemented, in the only way anybody has dreamed it could be implemented-by exclusion of unlawfully procured evidence.