Posted on 07/02/2022 6:49:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion, guns and religion — a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court’s conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the government’s regulatory powers.
And it has signaled no plans to slow down.
With former President Donald Trump’s appointees in their 50s, the six-justice conservative majority seems poised to keep control of the court for years to come, if not decades.
“This has been a revolutionary term in so many respects,” said Tara Leigh Grove, a law professor at the University of Texas. “The court has massively changed constitutional law in really big ways.”
Defenders of the court’s decisions said the criticism misses the mark because it confuses policy with law. “Supreme Court decisions are often not about what the policy should be, but rather about who (or which level of government, or which institution) should make the policy,” Princeton University political scientist Robert George wrote on Twitter.
For now, there is no sign that either the justices or Republican and conservative interests that have brought so many of the high-profile cases to the court intend to trim their sails, Grove said.
That’s in part because there’s no realistic prospect of court reforms that would limit the cases the justices could hear, impose term limits or increase the size of the Supreme Court, said Grove, who served on President Joe Biden’s bipartisan Supreme Court commission on court reforms.
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I don’t think SCOTUS changed anything. They upheld the Constitution and reversed unconstitutional decrees by left wing activist judges who were unqualified to sit on the highest court in the first place.
Suck it, Libs.
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Such fookin’ idjits. Following and correctly applying the constitutionality of an incorrectly decided previous decision is NOT changing the law. Still waiting for some brilliant hollyweird type to use a highlighter and show me abortion in the constitution. From being a privacy issue, abortion rights somehow ends up being settled law? If you follow that train of thought then if you choose to murder someone in the privacy of your own home it’s nobody’s business? But, no point arguing with ignorant people. “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot!”. Mark Twain.
> With former President Donald Trump’s appointees in their 50s, the six-justice conservative majority seems poised to keep control of the court for years to come, if not decades. <
We’ve been hit with round after round of bad news lately. Then the Associated Press writes this optimistic and upbeat article. Thanks, AP!
(It’s meant to be optimistic and upbeat, right?)
Poor babies. Sixty years of rampant liberalism spewing from the Supreme Court has been stopped and the advances are being pared back to the Constitutional boundaries. These little socialists actually believed that once they attain a position, ground, policy, that it may never revert.
Their Brezhnevian ratchet has been broken by Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointees and they are throwing a tantrum.
The steps CA and NY are taking to circumvent the intent of these rulings show that it’s like trying to make a deal with the Devil. As long as the Supreme Court leaves them any kind of opening they’ll drive a truck through it.
“The court has massively changed constitutional law in really big ways.”
The court has massively upheld constitutional law in a really big way.
In this I differ.
Now we have to get rid of the communist state governors to complete the transition back to a constitutional republic.
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