Charles M. Blow: The Supreme Court as an instrument of oppression

If you focus on the Supreme Court’s expansion of equal rights since the 1950s, you could see Samuel Alito’s stunning, leaked draft opinion as a shocking, anomalous reversal, a decision at odds with the trajectory of the court. But in doing so, you would also have to ignore the fact that for much of the court’s history, it has been used as an instrument of oppression.