I think it might look like that, but I think that Roberts was the one who carefully maintained that 'power'. People say that he's spineless and doesn't have any legal philosophy, but I think that Roberts is a realist. His decisions are entirely political and theatrical, meant to position the court as these detached, fair arbiters in the public eye while refusing to touch issues that would bring any real federal power to bear on the court under the fear that it would crack. Both Scalia and Ginsburg were furious about several refusals to grant certiorari to cases dealing with fundamental due process rights, and would probably have also both been furious about the way the court refused to back up other rights like speech during Covid. I think a lot of his jurisprudence is based on the assessment that the power of the court is a fragile illusion that could be shattered by both a very driven federal power structure simply ignoring a decision and a public who supports them in doing so. I think that if you had a more brazen court you would have seen it crushed by the 'iron triangle' long ago - it survives because Roberts is a shrinking violet.
It is easy. Electric car = good, solar power = good. So
No, the balance of the judicial branch has aways been kinda wonky because their role in goverment was poorly defined in the constitution and their ability to interpret the laws meant could interpret them to give themselves more power.
All of them!
Is this some chink “dreamers awaken” thing? Is your surname Dagoth, by any chance?
All of them. The JEW-diciary is rotten to the core
That sounds horrible.
hope it happens to accelerate jacksoning.
This will be used against Trump's negotiations now. Great work, judiciary. Nice meddling.
Which specific people were driving that truck?
If your grandparents were Latinos, they came up during the Chavez times, which gives me an excuse to post this again:
Everyone should be refusing the backscatter at this point. Fuck em.
My favorite stupid conspiracy theory is that stupid conspiracy theories are themselves a conspiracy, with a whole wing of the CIA dedicated to crafting conspiracy theories and seeding them in the population via obscure forums and shitty websites for the express purpose of making conspiracy theorists look stupid.
Your perspective is myopic. It only considers the scenario of the powers of the state against each other. You are not considering the People vs the State. The People have power over the Legislative and Executive when they elect them and are free to express their dislike of them through protest.
It's not supposed to just "work". Those three branches establish checks and balances that intentionally make it difficult for the government to do things BY DESIGN since the founding fathers understood that the government just doing things was (and will continue to be) the cause of most of their problems in the first place.
Well the feds do post on 4chan.
That's by design, it's why the Judicial can only fuck up what the other branches do and it can't really actively pursue anything, only obstruct. It can't raise funds, it can't enforce its rulings. It's a stick in the gears. When they do try to spin law out of thin air like with Roe it's legally fragile and subject to being overturned for that very reason.
In house publishing but only if complete data transparency and some effort towards replication involved.
