Joshua Matz Uncertain Justice

The first chapter of Uncertain Justice by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz was an interesting read, much more interesting than a textbook. I honestly didn’t think the authors took an overly liberal or conservative approach when describing Gruttinger, Fisher, Windsor, or any of the other rulings by the Court. I liked how it went into detail about the opinions of the individual justices, highlighting instances where specific justices highly disagreed with one another. The fundamental issue in this section was equality, and if we as a nation have achieved equality through recent Supreme Court rulings. It discussed perceived racial inequality relating to the use of affirmative action and violations of voting rights, as well as perceived inequality against the LGBTQ community in relation to the right of marriage.

The title of the chapter was “Equality: Are We There Yet?” and the authors’ stance was more or less that the question was yet to be determined by the Roberts Court, which relates to the title, Uncertain Justice. It was clear that some of the justices believe we have reached racial equality enough to curtail practices that inherently cause reverse discrimination, while other justices say we have not yet reached that point. Additionally, some of the justices do not believe there is a constitutional right to equality in regard to same-sex marriage, while others couldn’t disagree more. Thusly, I agree with the authors that there is no definitive answer to the question posed in the chapter at this time because it relates to issues that have been unanimous in the past or will still have to be ruled upon by the Roberts Court in the