CNN's Supreme Court Cases that Changed America

CNN posted a photo essay to their website recently about fifteen Supreme Court cases that changed America. All of the cases that CNN has chosen are in fact landmark cases that changed the American legal system.

I find it interesting that the very first photo is about the "Obamacare" decision. CNN has chosen to put that case first in the line up before cases such as Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Roe v. Wade. What I find even more interesting is CNN's failure to include the landmark Supreme Court decision Heller v. D.C. That was the first case ever decided by the Supreme Court to apply the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution as an individual right. Anti-gun politics perhaps? With all of the recent pushes for more anti-gun legislation in Washington and states around the country Heller v. D.C. should be included in that list. That landmark decision will undoubtedly be used as precedent for future Supreme Court cases. The court is likely to hear more gun rights cases in the future with the passage of laws such as New York State's constitutionally questionable SAFE Act.

The photo essay can be found here: CNN 15 Supreme Court Cases that Changed America