As student debt forgiveness, affirmative action, and fair elections hang in the balance, @mehdirhasan surveys all the ways SCOTUS has ceased to be a court... and begun to legislate from the bench as "politicians in robes." WATCH: youtube.com/E48IgW301Lc

Jun 22, 2023 路 8:49 PM UTC

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None of this is accurate. But you knew that.
Turning decision-making over to legislatures is the exact opposite of "legislating from the bench." It's actual democracy in action. Funny how the "muh democracy" crowd is so comfortable with laws being imposed by nine black-robed magistrates.
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Oh look more lies from Mehdi. Who even watches this drivel?
Left for 50 years after Blackmon and his pals totally invent Roe: "Hey, it's the law of the land"
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The funny thing is the Court has finally moved on from legislating from the bench. Things are either Constitutional or not. Mehdi doesn't respect that. He's projecting.
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What the shit kind of nonsense is this? The idea that the legal system, a principal mechanism of state violence, could ever be non-political is ludicrous on its face. Legal realism has been the name of the game since no later than the Code of Hammurabi.
That is a false claim and you know it. How can you put garbage like this out there? SCOTUS did not and should not legislate. That is up to congress to do. But since we know going the congress route won't get you many clicks, you go with this story. As usual, you're dishonest
The Supreme Court is not legislating by telling the president, who is also not the legislature, not to legislate.
You use the word legislate...like legislature...so the legislature needs to pass a law on this, not the president do it by executive fiat.
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