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Given that the judiciary and the legislative branch have equal footing in the founding documents, how is democracy being side-stepped?

• lmkg 17y ago
  The judiciary branch had to intervene to prevent Google from sidestepping the law, which they were attempting to do. If Google had gone to the courts to try to upend copyright law, that would be using a democratic process. That's not what Google did; they ignored the law, and the judiciary branch was invoked by someone else to step in and stop them.
  • pohl 17y ago
    In the end, it is the court's opinion on the legality of their actions that matters, not how the case came before it.