In Imbeciles, bestselling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law—including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis.
- Brandeis came into the progressive movement and did question the role of investment banksters, the growth of federal controls
, that free speech was sacrosanct. But progressives were also known for promotion of eugenics.
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In Imbeciles, bestselling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law—including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis.
- Brandeis came into the progressive movement and did question the role of investment banksters, the growth of federal controls
, that free speech was sacrosanct. But progressives were also known for promotion of eugenics.