Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg
Chuck Schumer’s ambitious plan to take the Supreme Court down a peg
Schumer wants to engage in jurisdiction stripping, a rarely used tactic that can shrink the Supreme Court’s authority.
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Senate shenanigans are always fun to read about.
Also, we learned that they're "separate but equal" branches of government in school. Let's see if the legislative branch can claw back some level of influence.
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Oy, of course you're right 😅
"Coequal" I think was the term I remember learning.
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like what?
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…we learned that they're "separate but equal" branches of government in school.
Samsies. But then again, I don’t think normal people (our founders included) ever expected a willful collusion by a party to stack those branches of government in their favor.
The founders didn't intend for the SCOTUS to be an equal branch of government. They just kinda started doing constitutional review, and multiple founders were explicit about how that's not what they intended.
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Thank you for pointing that out. It is an important distinction that carries a lot of weight for a lot of people.
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More like our founders would be shocked that we haven't rewritten the Constitution yet, and horrified that centuries later we're treating it like some divine scripture
There are multiple mechanisms in there to modify or even rewrite the whole thing. They totally saw this coming, they were pretty vocal about it. They hoped future generations would build on their work, not enshrine it