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>I feel the structure of the US since the New Deal is an aberration, and the court has simply refrained from doing inconvenient things, contorting itself to avo
by nojito 3y ago
>I feel the structure of the US since the New Deal is an aberration, and the court has simply refrained from doing inconvenient things, contorting itself to avoid doing disruptive inconvenient things. That wasnt a partisan view in my world, just an obscure one, until the only ones willing to match that view were extremely partisan.
>This court has expressed and shown that it wont refrain from doing disruptive, inconvenient things and I haven't found any of its decisions to be contortions or surprising, after having read those decisions
You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era
The immediate period before the new deal era that is universally ridiculed by every member of the Court today?
- yieldcrv 3y agoWhat I expect the court to do is leave absences of law, because Congress or the states neglected to create durable consensus. Its a predictive quality, instead of one based on feelings. Until I bring a case myself, I’m not arguing or advocating for anything, just listening far better than someone using their energy to protest something they have no control over. Your example, although I consider it a strawman, I think also shows that even what people believe about this current court is not unique. If they dont like this court, they really wouldnt have liked that court.