Shining a Light on One of the High Court’s Darkest Moments

February 19, 2016

(Washington Post) – Meanwhile, interested parties should prepare by reading a gripping new book about one of the court’s darkest moments. “Imbeciles” is the arch title that lawyer-journalist Adam Cohen has given his narrative of Buck v. Bell, the 1927 case in which the justices approved Virginia’s involuntary sterilization of “feeble minded,” epileptic and other purportedly genetically “unfit” citizens.