Some guy that also quotes Eugene Debs said:Popular majorities should determine the course of our society
Based and CCP-pilled.Holy hell, no thanks.
Yeah, I have to agree with lithy on this one.Holy hell, no thanks.
Might even argue they already are insane, right?I've had to put SCOTUS out of my mind now -- any liberal still focusing on it is gonna go insane.
Based and people are literally animals-pilled.Yeah, I have to agree with lithy on this one.
The three branches have roughly equal power, with each acting as a check on the other two.Having a Supreme Court with so much power seems rather undemocratic. The constant fights over who gets to pick the judges is performative nonsense. Bunch of fucking lawyers bending an old document and the decisions of previous appointed bullshitters to mean whatever they want. They may as well be interpreting the Bible.
The Supreme Court Is an Antidemocratic Monstrosity. We Should Break Its Power.
Instead of celebrating Stephen Breyer’s retirement, we should be weakening the Supreme Court’s power. Popular majorities should determine the course of our society — not nine unelected lawyers.jacobinmag.com
The U.S. was originally going to be more of a republic than a democracy, with the electoral college voting for the president, and the Senate being appointed by the state governments, rather than elected by popular vote. This was partly because the founders were afraid that a directly elected president would become too powerful (like a king), and also because direct election would mean the states with a larger population would effectively choose the president. Also, they expected that the Congress would be more powerful than the president.