There is no end in sight for the damage the U.S. Supreme Court is willing to inflict.
“[T]he Supreme Court . . . [will] have a right, independent of the legislature, to give a construction to the Constitution and every part of it, and there is no power provided in this system to correct their construction . . . . Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.” , and would require Justices to explain their recusal decisions to the public.
Roberts’s snub of the committee was consistent with his record of insulating the court from Congressional oversight and, by extension, the broader Constitutional framework of checks and balances.
Sadly, there is little prospect of the measure becoming law, both because of Republican opposition and the intransigence of Chief Justice John Roberts. In April,, explaining that testimony by the “Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence.”
Impervious to the political clamor, the court marches on, conducting business as usual, and driving American jurisprudence hard to the right. Equipped with the power ofthat gives it the authority to overturn acts of Congress and the executive, the court’s Republican majority has overturned past precedents and issued a blistering succession of reactionary rulings during Roberts’s tenure, on.
Sadly, there is little prospect of the measure becoming law, both because of Republican opposition and the intransigence of Chief Justice John Roberts. In April,, explaining that testimony by the “Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence.”
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