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That's not how this works. Laws can absolutely be changed; in the case of a SCOTUS decision, that's what constitutional amendments are for.
by stonogo 6y ago
That's not how this works. Laws can absolutely be changed; in the case of a SCOTUS decision, that's what constitutional amendments are for.
- wlesieutre 6y agoOnly required if SCOTUS’s opinion is on a constitutional matter, like 1st amendment rights. If SCOTUS writes an opinion on a law like DMCA and then the legislature repeals the DMCA, it doesn’t much matter how SCOTUS interprets it because it’s not a law anymore.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoAs you may have noticed, whether by design or social context or both, constitutional amendments are essentially impossible to pass.
- stonogo 6y agoWhat I've noticed is that we have nearly thirty of them, and two of them were passed in my lifetime.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoThe timeline looks like this: http://www.paufler.net/brettrants/161_amendments_graphs.html http://www.paufler.net/brettrants/161_amendments_graphs.html I wouldn't consider that indicative of the ease of passing an amendment. Perhaps you do. It appears to require an increasingly-hard-to-get combination of (1) widespread agreement that a problem requiring an amendment exists and (2) widespread agreement on what the nature of the amendment should be.