Because it became a political appointment.
They really should just decide whether a law is constitutional or not. If they decide not, the legislature and states can still amend the constitution. A long slow process but obviously it has been done.
But now they are another legislative political body. It is a shame but how can we change it back? When we nominate originalists we are told we are “right wing.” That really is not a “wing” position.
For decades, the judiciary has been the left’s House of Lords. It can lose the presidency. It can lose Congress. But as long as it has the courts – the Supreme Court in particular – democracy is in chains.
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As Thomas Jefferson feared. It was never meant to be this way. Every pet “civil right” of the Left was never meant to be treated as an amendment to the Constitution.
What the Founders gave us is now a complete wreck.
Translation: Liberal Democrat controlled judicial Oligarchy than reigns supreme over the other two branches of government.
After ACB’s appointment, it’ll be 5-4. After President Trump’s next appointment in his next term it will be 6-3. I can live with that.
At this point, the best we can hope for is to slow down the destruction of our Republic. ‘The Powers That Be’ will not be going quietly.
I think we all know that in our heart of hearts.
The Supreme Court needs to be concretely divested of power by Congress.
Very possible scenario - a hard-fought battle, apparently won by Trump, but the results aren't in yet in some battleground states. "Found" and late Mail-in ballots keep trickling in as the recounts and re-re-recounts go on and on. Sound familiar?
Yeah, and just like 2000, it goes all the way up to SCOTUS to halt the recounts and declare the winner.
Maybe Amy Barrett is the deciding vote. Think that will sit well with the Dems?
Or maybe Amy Barrett isn't seated yet and SCOTUS is deadlocked at 4-4. How would Repubs like that?
....matter of life and death....
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Yes, just ask the babies in their mothers’ wombs. Instead of a safe place, they are in deadly danger from a woman’s “right to choose” an abortion to kill them.
Millions of aborted children since Roe v Wade are eternally aware of just how much United States Supreme Court nominations are a matter of life and death.
Anyone checked up on Stephen Breyer lately? He is 82 years old.
Buy weapons and ammo, folks. This does not stop at elections and appointments. Leftist democrats want you dead. All of them not just their paramilitary wing called antifa.
JoMa
More specifically, as a consequence of generations of parents not making sure that their now adult voter children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those power so be understood, constitutionally low-information voters abuse their power to vote for senators and presidents in the following way.
Ordinary voters are clueless that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific powers to establish the benefits and social spending programs that corrupt federal politicians now regularly promise to voters to get themselves elected, unconstitutional (imo) Obamacare a recent example.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the feds.
”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
So regardless that people are playing the blame game, again, it can be argued that low-information voters have been instrumental in unconstitutionally expanding the powers of the federal government by abusing their voting powers.
The remedy for our constitutionally failed system…
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
They can always come up with a clever rationale for whatever they want to do,. .”
There’s nothing clever about it. They lie and if there are enough votes...that’s it!