Mistakes of the Judicial Branch

     Our Judicial Branch has a bit of a rough history.  While it has made mostly good calls in its lifetime, I believe that it has there have been some times when they’ve made some bad choices, or weren’t completely in control of what they were supposed to be. One such instance was when the issue of whether or not to make the Native American’s move to designated areas.  The Supreme Court was charged with making the decision, and they decided that it was unconstitutional to make them move, which I think was the right choice.  However, the president didn’t agree with them and decided to go ahead and make all of the Native Americans move to the places that we weren’t going to use.  The system didn’t work the way it was supposed to. There were also times when the judicial branch has made decisions that were completely unfair, especially when looking at them by today’s views.  Back in the 1920s a black man named Homer Plessy filed a lawsuit against a railway system because they forced him to sit in a separate train car than white people.  Courts kept ruling against him, and he kept bringing the case to higher and higher courts. Eventually the case made it to the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court ruled against Plessy, saying that separating people by race still kept them equal.  This introduced segregation as a lawful and accepted practice.  Back then it probably wasn’t so easy to realize the unfairness, but today almost everyone sees it.  As you can see, courts around America have made many mistakes, even the Supreme Court.  The judicial branch has not always worked the way that it was supposed to, and will probably continue to make mistakes in its judgment, even if those mistakes aren’t recognized for years to come.