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270. No, that would be the judiciary. Again you are wrong.

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 07:29 PM

Mar 2013

The judiciary holds far more long term power than Congress does, and the decisions of the judiciary have farther reaching effects on our society than any law or Act Congress can pass excepting Constitutional Amendments, which are by definition not subject to the review of the SCOTUS. That exception aside, THAT IS WHY THE TOP OF THE JUDICIARY IS MADE UP OF LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS. The Founders knew (and you really ought to have known this yourself) how much more power interpreting laws has vs. passing and executing them, and made certain, as they believed at the time, to free the SCOTUS from the influences of the politics of the day.

And while a sitting SCOTUS justice can be impeached by Congress because ham sandwich, the SCOTUS can completely strike down a law Congress passes because ham sandwich. They don't, but they can. This is also one of the reasons Thomas can say nothing at all during oral arguments, vote a case without writing a word, and not be impeached with any credibility of success. There's no requirement that a SCOTUS judge actually do anything visible to the public, nor is Congress capable of imposing one upon him. Congress can't, literally can not, force his active participation. Nice gig if you can get it...

What damned fool told you that, anyway? Whomever he was, he's a blithering idiot....

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Public option. JEB Mar 2013 #151

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blah, blah, blah Carolina Mar 2013 #239

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no MFM008 Mar 2013 #181

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Fuck.That.Shit. truebrit71 Mar 2013 #289

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Fuck. No. NuttyFluffers Mar 2013 #297