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No. It’s better to have a court that does its job. Reasonable people can accept a decision even if they disagree if the reasoning is not solid than “lol we can
by kergonath 1y ago
No. It’s better to have a court that does its job. Reasonable people can accept a decision even if they disagree if the reasoning is not solid than “lol we can so suck it up”.
And yes, anything close to a majority nominated by the sitting president is a constitutional crisis, in a regime where one is supposed to check the other.
- calculatte 1y ago[flagged]
- scarface_74 1y agoBirthright citizenship is literally in the Constitution
- perching_aix 1y agoTo clarify, do you think you're uniquely better at this than most / the folks here, or is that not an intended implication? Do you further think this phenomena is specific to here, or was that not an intended implication? Just trying to figure out what your scope is.
- kergonath 1y agoYou have no idea, you don’t know me and that was not the point I was making.
- throwaway48476 1y agoThe courts only have so much power because congress is dysfunctional and kicks every issue to the courts so they don't have to be accountable to voters.
- kergonath 1y agoWell yeah. That is a problem as well. The whole US government is a steaming mess right now, just because we cannot mention everything that’s wrong every post does not mean that we should not discuss any specific example. Yes, congress also abdicated its power. At the moment you have an executive branch ignoring law, precedent, and court orders, the legislative branch that is subservient to the executive and a judiciary in a state of civil war. None of that is right. None of the top-level institutions are working as they should.
- fzeroracer 1y agoThe Supreme Court has literally been usurping power from Congress by refusing to read the laws they've passed as written, kicking them back or neutering them knowing that Congress is locked down. And in this case they're refusing to do their actual job, which is defending the constitutional foundation of our country.
- throwaway48476 1y agoJudicial activism is certainly a problem as well. Stayed courts are the worst for this. California and Washington have initiatives but the courts just ignore them.