(October 12, 2020 at 1:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If it were not for the SCOTUS, and their only job was to always maintain the status quo, we'd still live in the age of segregation and women not voting.
Yet today, watching the SCOTUS hearings, I am hearing from every GOP member the same old "good ol days" bullshit, claim of " strict originalist" interpretation.
There was even one asshole GOP senator that had the gall to claim that the three branches were not "co-equal". And what he really meant by that is that "It isn't fair if I don't get everything I want."
Well, that 'asshole GOP senator' was correct - the three branches are not co-equal. They're supposed to be, they were intended to be, but the legislative and judicial branches (both parties) have gradually ceded more and more power to the executive.
It's always seemed to me that originalism is a failed argument. Your founders were clever enough to know that the Constitution was a flawed document, which is why they included a mechanism to change it from time to time.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
