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The Supreme Court's job is less about correcting bad laws than striking down unconstitutional laws. Many terrible laws can be totally constitutional. The best w
by crazy1van 12y ago
The Supreme Court's job is less about correcting bad laws than striking down unconstitutional laws. Many terrible laws can be totally constitutional. The best way to fix a bad law is to replace it with a better law.
- binarybits 12y agoI'd say that the Supreme Court isn't so much correcting bad laws as correcting bad Federal Circuit interpretations of the law.
- ubernostrum 12y agoThe Supreme Court's job is less about correcting bad laws than striking down unconstitutional laws. The judicial power in the United States extends to far more than "is this constitutional or not". It includes how to interpret and apply laws other than the Constitution, and the Supreme Court is the final stop for that process. Much of the debate about the Federal Circuit is that its interpretation and application of patent law departs radically from the Supreme Court's interpretation and application.
- crazy1van 12y agoOh I agree. But the best solution would be just to write better laws in the first place -- laws that can't be interpreted to produce the mess of a patent system that we have right now.