[old republic]

I must point out that the decision in Powell v McCormack was written by Chief Justice Earl Warren one of the most liberal Justices in the Court's history. This Court was notorious for accepting cases that were political questions. One controversial example of such a step was the Baker v Carr decision. This decision made it so the Court could intervene in the drawing of Congressional districts which had been taboo before that case was decided.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I'll actually defend Baker v. Carr, because that decision had to do with the way Tennessee (Democrats, of course) had refused to redistrict its legislative seats, allowing a situation where rural districts with only a couple thousand people had the same representation as urban counties with hundreds of thousands. It was a grotesque inequity of staggering proportions, designed at the time to keep both Republicans and Blacks from fair representation.