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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Yes. And it's possible to overturn a SCOTUS decision too. You just need to pass a constitutional amendment by getting two thirds of the members of the house and senate to agree on it and then three fourths of the states to approve it. Which is the same as to say 'sure, it could happen but it will not any time in the foreseeable future'.

As an aside: this is why the SCOTUS justices are our real overlords. They have life tenure, they can override the constitution on a whim, and it's virtually impossible to override them.

8 posted on 10/22/2020 9:28:12 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Some years back, Bork called it the “liberal judiciocracy.”


11 posted on 10/22/2020 9:49:02 AM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

>Yes. And it’s possible to overturn a SCOTUS decision too. You just need to pass a constitutional amendment

Please reread Federalist #78 by Alexander Hamilton. I can’t imagine a self-respecting Freeper who hasn’t read it once. He certainly did not see such a requirement in a government of divided powers and coequal branches.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed78.asp

And then refer to the response of Andrew Jackson to Worcester v Georgia (1832). A President and 34 senators (blocking impeachment) can nix any SCOTUS pronouncement.


12 posted on 10/22/2020 9:51:53 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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