• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Pretty much all authority the Supreme Court has is power it has given itself. It’s long overdue being reigned in.

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      11 months ago

      Indeed, I posted this on another thread about the court

      Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, September 11, 1804, “but the opinion [Marbury v Madison] which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional, and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature & executive also in their spheres, would make the judiciary a despotic branch.”