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Another thing this court has highlighted is we shouldn't rest on specific legal interpretations when big and important ambiguities are raised. Whether it's the
by zamadatix 2y ago
Another thing this court has highlighted is we shouldn't rest on specific legal interpretations when big and important ambiguities are raised. Whether it's the interpretation of the Constitution as protecting abortion in Roe v. Wade, whether or not the 14th amendment does or does not allow factoring race into college admissions via affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger, when courts must defer to agency interpretation of a law as found in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., or other such important decisions it's not something we should just leave as settled via current interpretation rather something we should seek to reinforce via updates to the law. That such important things make it to the Supreme Court to decide interpretation should be hint it may not be as clear cut as we'd like to have believed.
The biggest factor in limiting the Supreme Court's power is writing laws that supersede the rulings on existing laws. If we just rest on ever increasing current interpretations of past laws to drive current policy then we are going to give an ever increasing amount of power to the judicial branch.