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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not understand the argument.

If the court members were not nominated, and gone to the congress for approval, they would be not legitmate, right?

I believe they did that, and are legitimate. [b]I think the writer disagrees with the court decisions, or is a person on the left side.[/b] Perhaps I do not understand the word or argument.[/quote]

This!
Consider the source:  "Lawyers, Guns and Money is a politics and culture blog written primarily by a group of eight academics.  LGM was founded in May 2004 by David Watkins, Rob Farley, and Scott Lemieux."

Scott Lemieux
University of Washington
Assistant Teaching Professor

Robert Farley, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Kentucky
PhD, University of Washington

David Watkins
Associate Professor, Univ. of Dayton
M.A and PhD, University of Washington

Now, these academics can bemoan the composition of the Supreme Court and the decisions that are made, but they would be better off writing about how our legislature needs to legislate.  Many of the issues decided at the Supreme Court level is due to the fact that our Congress has, for years, abdicated their responsibility to the courts to make decisions instead of them making laws.

I remember Ben Sasse's words during the Kavanaugh confirmation.  He stated clearly and eloquently what the issues are...

Here is part of a summary from Reason:
[quote]But why has every Supreme Court nomination become such an "overblown politicized circus," as Sasse put it? In short, it's because Congress has abdicated its responsibility to be the nation's law-making authority. Deferring to the decisions of unelected bureaucrats and actively handing over power to the executive branch has short-circuited the democratic process, Sasse argued, leaving Americans with the sense that they do not control government, but rather the other way around.

"This transfer of power means that people yearn for a place where politics can actually be done. And when we don't do a lot of big actual political debating here, we transfer it to the Supreme Court, and that's why the Supreme Court is increasingly a substitute political battleground in America," said Sasse. "It is not healthy, but it is what happens, and it's something that our Founders wouldn't be able to make any sense of."[/quote]

https://reason.com/2018/09/04/ben-sasse-supreme-court-kavanaugh-video/

The best thing, though, is to listen to his words that day.  They are powerful and 100 times better than the piece linked above.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlAHS6pT5A4[/youtube]

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