On Tuesday, Stephen Breyer, an associate justice of the Supreme Court since 1994, gave aat Harvard Law School, warning that the authority of the highest court in the land depended on"a trust that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics."
Breyer is one of three liberal justices left on the court after President Donald Trump filled three vacancies in four years and gave the court a 6-3 hard-right majority. The— named in honor of his late conservative colleague Justice Antonin Scalia — was to"make those whose initial instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional change, such as forms of 'court-packing,' think long and hard before they embody those changes in law.
Seriously? It's hard to pick which words in that statement I find the most naive, misguided and self-serving. To Breyer's remarks, I have three responses. First, where on Earth has he been over the past two decades as the Supreme Court delivered one partisan decision after another? Napping? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a member of the Judiciary Committee,
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mehdirhasan Daily If the courts were alive and breathing, we wouldn’t be having the humanitarian crisis at the border! Because they failed to uphold the constitution, kids are being sexually molested and raped while in custody by the Biden administration! Do something!