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To: editor-surveyor

"You are one confused dude!
The Congress has authority over the supreme court, according to the constitution"

Yes, the US Constitution does say that.
The US Supreme Court routinely strikes down acts of Congress.
Congress has never nullified an act of the Supreme Court.
It has, at best, passed legislation which attempts to get around the Supreme Court's decision.
In many cases, the Supreme Court has struck down such follow-on legislation as well.

Example: abortion.
Every Congressional or local effort to curtail it since Roe v. Wade has been struck down by the Supreme Court.

So yes, the Constitution says things.
But the historical record says that Congress always obeys the Supreme Court's orders. Congress never issues orders to the Supreme Court. And when it passes laws that might restrict the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court routinely strikes them down as unconstitutional.

I am not confused.
Rather, there is a fundamental tension between what the Constitution says on the paper document, and what many Americans here think it ought to mean, on the one hand, and the reality of Supreme Court power on the other.


1,075 posted on 06/23/2005 6:15:53 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: Vicomte13

Like I said, You are one confused dude.


1,146 posted on 06/23/2005 7:15:04 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The Lord has given us President Bush; let's now turn this nation back to him)
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