Tuesday, June 30, 2015
"Let’s Drop the Charade: The Supreme Court Is a Political Branch, Not a Judicial One"
As this writer points out, politics seems to be clearly at the crux of that difference...
Andrew C. McCarthy includes this in his posted article at National Review:
"We should thus drop the pretense that the Court is a tribunal worthy of the protections our system designed for a non-political entity — life-tenure, insulation from elections, and the veil of secrecy that shrouds judicial deliberations. If the justices are going to do politics, they should be in electoral politics. If John Roberts is going to write laws on the days when he isn’t posing as powerless to write laws, if Anthony Kennedy truly believes the country craves his eccentric notion of liberty (one that condemns government restraints on marriage 24 hours after it tightens government’s noose around one-sixth of the U.S. economy), then their seats should not be in an insulated third branch of government. They should be in an accountable third chamber of Congress."
