[Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS]

1. the Supreme Court is the supreme arbiter of the Constitution
2. so that they will not be accountable to the people.

NONSENSE REFUTED:

• The Avalon Project : Federalist No 78

• Congress, the Court, and the Constitution

[CobaltBlue]

One of the first things you learn in Constitutional Law class is that a lot of the things the Supreme Court decided about itself were not explicit in the Constitution, like having the power to declare statutes unconstitutional. That was something decided in Marbury vs. Madison (1803).

In theory, it didn't have to turn out that way, it could have turned out that the Supreme Court decided that it did not have the power to declare statutes unconstitutional. But if that were so, then Congress could do whatever it wanted and that would give Congress more power than the other two parts of the government.

So the Supreme Court has been doing it ever since, for the past 200 years. They don't always do what any particular person would like for them to do but that's the way litigation is. One side wins, the other loses.

And this is the greatest country on earth, the greatest country that ever was, and we have the greatest Constitution that ever was. Wanting to change the constitution because your side lost a case is just being a sore loser.

That's my opinion, anyway.