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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe the lesson for both the R's and D's here is that the Court has too much power? You know, we could get back to the Constitution's real architecture: having elected officials in Congress and state legislatures make tough choices and owning it. [/quote] The Constitution doesn't say much about the SCOTUS' powers. The thing everyone complains about is judicial review, which is a power that John Marshall invented. Thomas Jefferson strongly objected saying it would lead to despotism. Problem is, nobody has come up with a better mechanism for enforcing the Constitution than using the courts, so here we are.[/quote] Somebody's got to do it, and I'd rather have a panel of educated lawyers who have been vetted than a despot elected by the idiocracy (us). One thing that could help would be if we had minimal occupational requirements and background checks on Presidential candidates. Make them pass a civics test perhaps?[/quote]
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