Posted on 07/03/2024 5:38:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Blockbuster Supreme Court decisions, like overturning Roe v. Wade, and Monday's ruling on presidential immunity, have some questioning the state of the nation's highest court.
Recent action by the justices is setting off new conversations about Supreme Court reform.
"I think one of the things we see in the Trump vs. U.S. is that the court is really inserting themselves into the midst of this highly politicized issue," said Alison LaCroix, a University of Chicago law professor.
Monday's decision allowing presidents to operate above the law left many constitutional law experts scratching their heads.
"I don't remember a decision that frightened me more than this one, or a decision that I thought was as wrong-headed as this one. Our entire country was built on the premise that we wanted to avoid tyranny," said Martin Redish, a Northwestern School of Law professor.
"It's more of these cases, where they say, 'we know what the founders thought, so we can overturn the law as it's been,'" LaCroix said.
LaCroix is a constitutional law expert and a historian. She said the current high court is not interpreting history correctly.
LaCroix said while Supreme Courts have always been political, the current block of conservative justices are changing the meaning of the law based on their own version of history.
"They're very willing to overturn precedent and to just say, 'this principle in law, stare decisis, it stands decided.' They basically say, 'we're not bound by that. And we don't even have a preference for not overturning the law,'" LaCroix said.
LaCroix said SCOTUS' recent rulings have reignited legal conversations about Supreme Court reforms, such as adding more justices or term limits for the lifetime appointees.
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Alison LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is also an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History. She is a scholar of US legal history specializing in constitutional law, federalism, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century legal thought.
The democrats want to corrupt the system in their favor
And messing with the number of Justices is just a political game.
We DO need term limits -- BUT NOT at the court -- at the US Congress!
She’s the poster child for why the Founding Fathers did not give women the vote.
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If you don’t like the decisions of the SCOTUS, simply pack the courts until they vote the way Dems want 100% of the time. That way you can just skip the messy and expensive judicial system and “deem” that SCOTUS has ruled (since you know the outcome anyway).
All the more reason to elect TRUMP and MAGA candidates to office.
We are agreed about women and voting. There was a precipitous decline in liberty after Susan B Anthony. Women, by their very nature, can be vicious, spiteful, and emotion driven. But boy, we love them.
Strange how the left are ok with the Supreme Court rules in favor of something they like but the court is evil when it rules against them.
Leave the court alone.
I love when these all knowing youngsters seek their 15 minutes....with close to “0” legal experience under their belt.
As ‘they’ interpret eighteenth and nineteenth century legal thought. The “long island medium” she ain’t! Passing through numerous courses in “higher” education obviously only means you passed through numerous courses.
But womens biggest problem is their one issue voting.
“I think one of the things we see in the Trump vs. U.S. is that the court is really inserting themselves into the midst of this highly politicized issue,”
Inserting itself into highly politicized issues is what the USSC has been doing for the past two centuries.
“... Supreme Court reform.”
So that is what they decided to call it.
Funny, we never hear about “democrat party reform.”
The communist far lefties want total control of the Feral “American” justice system. The number of “judges” in America is a threat to democrazy and needs to be reduced by about at least 95%.
What a bunch of excrement!
You have to be in power to attempt this, dear America-/American-hating Democrat/Communists.
Anything to protect democracy, don’t you know
Certainly there is only one way to correctly interpret history. Everybody knows that!
Nice totalitarian mindset there.
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