[pepsi_junkie]

It's always been the achilles heel of the republic. The founders set up the executive and the congress to be real checks and balances but didn't really give the judiciary any actual role but did give them lifetime tenure, so of course a judge decided to just take one and declared the SCOTUS the final say on all laws. And judges just declaring something that they made up has come way back in fashion lately. The least accountable branch with no checks on it's power has the most power.

makes sense.

[plain talk]

The system developed by the founders was fine and devised to be implemented by rational moral people. Unfortunately rational moral politicians are getting scarce.

[Dr. Franklin]

It's always been the achilles heel of the republic. The founders set up the executive and the congress to be real checks and balances but didn't really give the judiciary any actual role but did give them lifetime tenure, so of course a judge decided to just take one and declared the SCOTUS the final say on all laws. And judges just declaring something that they made up has come way back in fashion lately. The least accountable branch with no checks on it's power has the most power.
makes sense.

Our modern judiciary little resembles the judicial system of common law juries deciding cases, even on appeal. The Anti-Federalists most feared the federal judiciary. They predicted that it would destroy the common law jury system. They were largely right. The judges declared themselves supreme over the juries, and now about 1% of civil cases are decided by a jury.

[Fledermaus]

Congress can stop them. They just won’t.