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While the decisions of the Supreme Court are final in the legal sense,
they are nevertheless subject to review by history, which is the collective
judgment of legal scholars and historians. Justices of the highest court cannot escape the judgment of history. The final judge of the beneficial or detrimental effects of Supreme Court decisions is history. When a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court writes a decision, he may very well ask himself, “Will history judge this as the Dred Scott of this Court?” When a Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court writes his decision, he may also ask himself, “Will history judge this as the Executive Secretary v. Javellana of this Court?” Dred Scott brought the U.S. Supreme Court to its lowest point in its history. Executive Secretary v. Javellana, in my humble opinion, brought the Philippine Supreme Court to its lowest point in its history."
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- SC SAJ A. Carpio.
