Ames v Ohio DYS: How the Supreme Court Warped Civil Rights Laws to Undermine Civil Rights

Ames v Ohio DYS: How the Supreme Court Warped Civil Rights Laws to Undermine Civil Rights

While our nation’s brightest jurists have spent the last several months wrestling with just how emphatically they should greenlight Trump’s autocratic takeover, they’ve also found time to consider some of these important questions, culminating in its decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. Ames is the latest byproduct of the conservative legal movement’s weaponization of philosophical legal principles to get to the political outco…