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What is it with these administrations in recent years urging the Supreme Court not to do it's job? I admit, I have not studied the history of such particular r
by teilo 14y ago
What is it with these administrations in recent years urging the Supreme Court not to do it's job?
I admit, I have not studied the history of such particular requests from the justice department, but I do not remember hearing so many of them from previous administrations. By "previous" I mean before Bush, since if memory serves, W did a lot of this as well.
- taeric 14y agoTo be fair, you are pretty much limiting the search to "pre internet." My understanding is that the level of visibility into everything has increased more than can really be considered. Personally, I do not consider this a bad thing.
- rayiner 14y agoThe DOJ will always weigh in on the side of asking the Supreme Court not to invalidate the Constitutionality of a law. It's part of their job. The decision to not defend the constitutionality of DOMA was quite controversial actually. I think the reason it seems worse in this administration is because Obama's DOJ is fucking bad at public relations. Their understanding of the optics of cases is unusually bad.