Justice Samuel Alito Insists Congress Has No Power To ‘Regulate’ Supreme Court - eviltoast
In an interview in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section, he says there’s no room for Congress to set rules for the court.
  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    232·
    1 year ago

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

    • Methylman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      1 year 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.”

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        we were worried that republicans were gonna make the president a dictator appointed exclusively by republicans, and while we were fighting against that they made scotus a dictator appointed exclusively by republicans