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To: inquest
This has nothing to do with being obliged to review acts of Congress. It's all about the power! The USSC has the final say on all matters of Constitutional law. That's the way its been for 200 years. In 1973 the SC came to a conclusion that abortion was a womens right under Constitutional law. That's power. It goes to the reason why the pro-abortion forces are so worried about Bush43 getting opportunities to replace two of the sitting SC justices. Roe v Wade could be overturn, if say O'Conner and Stevens retire and Bush gets to appoint jurists like Luddig or Kozinski to the high court.

>>>He did not say that SCOTUS is the final authority.

I never said that. You're the one editorializing my remarks .....dot dot dot dot dot dot ........

>>>Clearly, according to him, the courts must conform to the law, not the other way around.

You'd think so. But that's not the case.

81 posted on 06/15/2004 5:08:30 PM PDT by Reagan Man (The choice is clear. Reelect BUSH-CHENEY !)
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To: Reagan Man
This has nothing to do with being obliged to review acts of Congress. It's all about the power! The USSC has the final say on all matters of Constitutional law.

If you're referring to the way things are understood currently, that's different. My point was simply that the court did not hold in Marbury vs Madison that the court has final say on all matters of constitutional law.

It goes to the reason why the pro-abortion forces are so worried about Bush43 getting opportunities to replace two of the sitting SC justices.

You're talking about something else here. SCOTUS can rule one way today and the opposite way tomorrow. But that doesn't mean the law has changed. All that's changed is the extent to which the law's being respected by the court.

83 posted on 06/15/2004 5:29:04 PM PDT by inquest (Judges are given the power to decide cases, not to decide law)
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