How the Supreme Court used a made-up statistic to expand sex offender registries

posted in: In the News | 0

How the Supreme Court used a made-up statistic to expand sex offender registries

Updated by on August 20, 2015, 11:41 a.m. ET

The Supreme Court is supposed to be the most respected and trusted judicial body in the US. It hands down decisions that affect hundreds of millions of Americans. And it’s not easy for a case to work up to the highest court, much less get a hearing.

But what if the Supreme Court’s decisions were occasionally based on a totally made-up statistic?