Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2017-06-08 638aaa
“Corrupt Republikkklan Court Packing
"In an grim column for The Atlantic, American University Law Professor Kimberly Wehle warns that the current Supreme Court with its 6-3 conservative majority has become "a threat" to the country as it runs roughshod over previous rulings while usurping the powers of the executive and legislative branch unchecked.
As Wehle explains, using recent rulings including the highly controversial overturning of Roe v Wade last year, the court, bolstered by three far-right justices appointed by former president Donald Trump, has taken on cases that expose "the right-wing majority’s appetite for asserting massive power under the auspices of judicial review."
Noting that Stanford Law School Professor Mark A. Lemley recently wrote that the court, as it stands now, is engaged in “a radical restructuring of American law across a range of fields and disciplines,” Wehle agreed, writing that what the court's conservative wing is doing runs, "...along two lines: substantive changes to the Constitution made under the guise of interpretation, and procedural power grabs executed despite traditions of deference. This has pushed our constitutional system dangerously off balance, with little opportunity for correction."
Case in point, she notes, is how the court ruled on the two hot topics of abortion, in its controversial Dobbs ruling, and guns.""”
“'A guarantee of anarchy': Law professor warns Supreme Court is a 'threat to the whole system'”
“The Supreme Court Just Keeps Deciding It Should Be Even More Powerful
Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished.”
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