Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the…

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    1 year ago

    SCOTUS has definitely shaped their opinions to give them the final say in just about everything the government does.

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        It’s very effective, it’s just we’ve decided to vote in a bunch of plutocrats to manage it.

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          Indeed. They surely got no problems providing welfare, tax cuts and good policy for legal persons to develop and grow strong!

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        I think it’s worse now. Even if the legislature gets fixed, SCOTUS would shoot down everything they don’t want.

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      The constitution did that…

      Also, congress can legislate as they please as long as it doesn’t violate the constitution.

      Congress chooses not to do that for most things peasants care or need done.

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        we should abolish the constitution and start over. it’s an outdated piece of paper that doesn’t treat me like a human being.

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          Interesting hot take. Would you like the current crop of politicians to write that when they have trouble passing regular laws?

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            Typically you do a good, hearty round of invoking a french mechanism before continuing with anything major like that. Out of an abundance of caution.

            These days, hard to say how you get yourself to a blank slate. The wealthy in this country are richer than any of the nobility our forefathers ever had to contend with.

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        Marbury vs. Madison did it. Judicial review isn’t explicitly in the Constitution.