Supreme Court decisions can lead to more nightmares than a Wes Craven film. Masked mass murderers and razor-gloved villains may be frightening, but bad SCOTUS opinions wreak decades of havoc in the real world.

In honor of Halloween, we’re looking back at five Supreme Court decisions that are so bad, they’re scary.

There you have it: our picks for the scariest Supreme Court cases. What do you think are the best of the worst from the Bench?

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