The Rise of Judicial Nihilism The US Supreme Court has been criticized for its increasingly partisan decisions, but a more insidious trend has emerged: the court's willingness to justify racist policies by ignoring or downplaying their explicit animus.
This trend is evident in the Roberts Court's handling of voting rights, immigration, and national security cases. In 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts claimed to have repudiated the Korematsu v.
United States decision, which upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.