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In a twist of history, the supreme court of ohio just issued a ruling eerily echoing the 1857 Dred Scott decision—but this time, the debate isn't over slavery, it's over who gets to decide what's a 'necessary' medical procedure in the wake of a public health crisis. Like the infamous precedent that stripped federal power from the states' rights to define citizenship, this new 4-3 opinion empowers local counties to override state health mandates, sparking comparisons to the pre-Civil War era's 'popular sovereignty' battles. Critics are calling it a 'judicial time warp,' while supporters hail it as a return to local control—proving that sometimes, the past isn't dead, it's not even past.
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In a twist of history, the supreme court of ohio just issued a ruling eerily echoing the 1857 Dred Scott decision—but this time, the debate isn't over slavery, it's over who gets to decide what's a 'necessary' medical procedure in the wake of a public health crisis. Like the infamous precedent that stripped federal power from the states' rights to define citizenship, this new 4-3 opinion empowers local counties to override state health mandates, sparking comparisons to the pre-Civil War era's 'popular sovereignty' battles. Critics are calling it a 'judicial time warp,' while supporters hail it as a return to local control—proving that sometimes, the past isn't dead, it's not even past.