Thom, I bought your book on the Supreme Court and have been reading it. This was after they overturned Roe v Wade and I was trying to understand their processes - and just how they could completely ignore precedence and how many times that decision had been upheld. The more I read about the Court as nd especially how they have no “gateke…
Thom, I bought your book on the Supreme Court and have been reading it. This was after they overturned Roe v Wade and I was trying to understand their processes - and just how they could completely ignore precedence and how many times that decision had been upheld. The more I read about the Court as nd especially how they have no “gatekeeper” - as do our other branches of govt. Madison (I believe) called it “despotic” and questioned its existence at all. For Gorsuch to blithely say “the Court doesn’t make policy” - well, that would almost be hilarious, if it weren’t so completely absurd and a downright lie. I’d say, just say FIRST and foremost, if Citizens United isn’t policy for all our oligarchs and greedy politicians (and an urging for the Koch family to set up their network to CHOOSE their politicians and therefore which party shall dominate Congress) then, boy, I don’t know “policy” at all. The Supremes have made voting much harder by their picking and choosing of the laws in the Civil Rights bill passed by Congress & signed by President Johnson - that’s not policy-making, it is most definitely legislating! I don’t even see ANY need fit this Court anymore. The first mistake made in forming it was to call it “Supreme”
Thom, I bought your book on the Supreme Court and have been reading it. This was after they overturned Roe v Wade and I was trying to understand their processes - and just how they could completely ignore precedence and how many times that decision had been upheld. The more I read about the Court as nd especially how they have no “gatekeeper” - as do our other branches of govt. Madison (I believe) called it “despotic” and questioned its existence at all. For Gorsuch to blithely say “the Court doesn’t make policy” - well, that would almost be hilarious, if it weren’t so completely absurd and a downright lie. I’d say, just say FIRST and foremost, if Citizens United isn’t policy for all our oligarchs and greedy politicians (and an urging for the Koch family to set up their network to CHOOSE their politicians and therefore which party shall dominate Congress) then, boy, I don’t know “policy” at all. The Supremes have made voting much harder by their picking and choosing of the laws in the Civil Rights bill passed by Congress & signed by President Johnson - that’s not policy-making, it is most definitely legislating! I don’t even see ANY need fit this Court anymore. The first mistake made in forming it was to call it “Supreme”
Too many fragile egos there to contain that term.
try 'formerly-Supreme'
it Works for me.