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Our government is structured so that nothing is really set in stone. The people who are supposed to check bad decisions by the court are the legislature. This
by Spivak 3y ago
Our government is structured so that nothing is really set in stone. The people who are supposed to check bad decisions by the court are the legislature.
This game we're playing is we now have one legislative body that writes laws and another that writes effectively constitutional amendments. This makes no sense at all and we've created an in-practice unchecked branch of government.
So I don't disagree that the court has done good things with their power but once in a generation swings is much easier to put up with than what we have going now. The world hasn't meaningfully changed since they originally upheld universities' limited ability to discriminate and as much as I don't like that choice I still think take-backsies is a worse one.
My (red) state has a bill going through right now to outlaw university diversity quotas and it likely won't pass so this isn't cultural attitudes changing.