Today I try to answer what I see as the two core questions about the Supreme Court: 1. Should judicial review, the power to strike down statutes deemed unconstitutional, exist at all? 2. Should unelected judges have so much power in a democracy? https://www.liberalcurrents.com/fix-the-amendment-process-to-fix-the-court/">https://www.liberalcurrents.com/fix-the-a...
I think the very idea of a Constitution is moot if you don& #39;t think it trumps statutes in the constitutional legal system. If you think that& #39;s true, then you need someone to make that determination. Something like judicial review is needed, whether or not it& #39;s actually judicial.
Something that is somehow rarely mentioned in debates about unelected judges is that America actually has more elected judges than just about anywhere, and the result isn& #39;t what I& #39;d call wonderful.
The key issue with judicial review IMO isn& #39;t the fact that judges are unelected but that our Constitution is so hard to amend that the review is completely one-sided. If judges interpret a statute a way Congress dislikes, they can update the statute. Not so with the Constitution.
In this piece I also discuss the rationale behind independent courts and agencies, and defend the importance of professional politicians. Under-resourced local legislatures are way more likely to just outsource the work of legislating to interest groups!
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