what if SCOTUS went totally rogue? [View all]

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Scalia says important decisions shouldn't be left to congress. He implies that SCOTUS should be making the laws of the land, despite the will of the people being expressed through its elections.

Have we ever had a Supreme Court go rogue and impose an ideological agenda that is contrary to the will of the people? The GOP could set up a sort of rocket docket right to SCOTUS and impose all sorts of new misery on the country.

Would that be a coup?

What would be the remedy?

Of course the president does have the power to alter the court by adding new members. In the event of a rogue court, that might be the only remedy, as odious as some people think it is.