Wait....why is this phrased like it's a bad thing?
For Supreme Court's conservatives, it's all about the letter of the law https://usat.ly/2snkdnF via @richardjwolf
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@usatodayDC is tacitly admitting the liberal wing of the Supreme Court doesn’t care about the law.#scotushttps://twitter.com/usatodayDC/status/1001534640002347010 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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As it should be
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I realize obeying the law fell out of favor from January 2009 to January 2017, but the Supreme Court pays more attention to Congressional intent than anything else in parsing the law - what Congress wrote down as law is the surest guide to what they intended. No pen, no phone.
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Is that not how this works?
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Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?
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Roberts has an individual mandate PenalTax to sell you.
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Interesting ... so the Liberal judges want to make up law on the bench and the conservatives want to uphold the laws as written. Call me SHOCKED
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So, you're suggesting that for SCOTUS liberals, the law is irrelevant?
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Always has been, they re-write it rather than intrpret.
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as obvious and dumb as it sounds to have to say it aloud or type it, there's plenty of judges that don't think this way....ugh
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Gee, I don't know, maybe because 'THAT IS THEIR JOB'. US Constitution 101: SC Jurist do not make law, that is the responsibility of the Congress. The opposite headline would read Supreme Court's liberals, its all about ignoring the letter of the law to support our agenda. Duh.
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USA Today is a notch below The Weekly Reader. That's how our govt works. Congress votes to makes laws. The Executive branch--the President--fulfills those laws by implementation or prosecution. The Judicial branch rules whether the laws are consistent with the U.S. Constitution.
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And even that function of the Surpreme Court isn't found in the Constitution. The Court siezed that power in Marbury v. Madison.
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True, however that's been "precedent" since 1803. After 215 yrs what are the chances the Supreme Court will reduce their powers for judicial review? And We The People have failed in our responsibility to keep the gov't limited in scope.
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No, of course not. I was just pointing out that the greatest power wielded by the Supreme Court wasn't even granted to them initially in the Constitution as written.
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It would be fun, though, wouldn't it? To pass an Amendment that says "oh, and if we think your decision is bullshit, we'll overturn it with 3/4ths vote of each House." Sounds fair. There's no real "check" on the power of SCOTUS like the other 2 branches.
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Sure there is. The other branches could craft legislation that is in keeping with the SCOTUS view of the founding documents. Failing that, there’s a mechanism to amendend those documents.
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