If in the last few months, SCOTUS wasn’t being delegitimized through solid investigative journalism by some members of the press that the right-wing justices would have been ruling in the opposite.
There’s a theory going around that the main thing SCOTUS has been doing for a couple decades is increasing the power of courts over the other branches of government, and this decision is exactly in keeping with that.
All government branches try to upset the delicate balance as far as they can, and this might be part of it…but they did slap down quite a stinker here.
Congress has been shirking it’s power in favor of groveling before the executive branch for several generations, excluding a brief post-watergate reassertion of power.
If in the last few months, SCOTUS wasn’t being delegitimized through solid investigative journalism by some members of the press that the right-wing justices would have been ruling in the opposite.
There’s a theory going around that the main thing SCOTUS has been doing for a couple decades is increasing the power of courts over the other branches of government, and this decision is exactly in keeping with that.
All government branches try to upset the delicate balance as far as they can, and this might be part of it…but they did slap down quite a stinker here.
Congress has been shirking it’s power in favor of groveling before the executive branch for several generations, excluding a brief post-watergate reassertion of power.
A theory that could hold water.
I only disagree on the time length, because this has been happening since Marbury v Madison