Sunday, April 25, 2021

Opinion: Supreme Court's staggering deviation from precedent - CNN

...That a new conservative majority so quickly emboldened the Court to overturn longstanding precedent confirms what many in the public might believe about jurists -- that they are not bound by fidelity to the law alone, but are also political actors, deciding as they want. In fact, the majority decision in Jones gave Congress a great reason for expanding the size of the Supreme Court, as some have recently recommended. When a clear majority has signaled how willing it is to toss aside its own precedents with alarming haste, it is hard to argue, as some have, that adding more justices would be the thing that would politicize the Court beyond repair. It seems it is already there...


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