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grasswire

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12. my fear now is a rocket docket

Reply to Euphoria (Reply #11)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:05 PM

Feb 2013

....where GOP brings any case it wishes up to SCOTUS for affirmation.

It's going on right now. A state legislature will introduce some crazy nutjob law that might even be unconstitutional. On appeal, if it gets to SCOTUS, they validate it and it becomes the law of the land.

That could be the way the right wins its way, at last.

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what if SCOTUS went totally rogue? [View all] grasswire Feb 2013 OP

Well, that "will of the people" thing seems to have departed Washington altogether. djean111 Feb 2013 #1

repubs will filibuster any liberal SCOTUS nominee (thanks, Harry), so good luck with that nt msongs Feb 2013 #2

They already have. Remember Bush V Gore? How about Citizens United? Vincardog Feb 2013 #3

And not the first time nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #4

They already have certain powers, but they have limitations as well el_bryanto Feb 2013 #5

See, the protest voters in 2000 proved that Ralph Nader was 100% dead wrong graham4anything Feb 2013 #6

...huh? theKed Feb 2013 #8

Welcome to DU theKed. Autumn Feb 2013 #9

Oh I know theKed Feb 2013 #10

Separation of powers doesn't assume the moral superiority of any one branch FarCenter Feb 2013 #7

Thought-provoking post Euphoria Feb 2013 #11

my fear now is a rocket docket grasswire Feb 2013 #12

Just because the SCOTUS declines to overturn a law passed by some state legislature Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #13

Constitution gives Congress the right to define the structure of the SCOTUS BlueStreak Feb 2013 #14

Wait. I thought Repubs hated "activist" judges who legislate from the bench LonePirate Feb 2013 #15