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Some would have liked to.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

But that's another story.

If the law is a bad law and violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court has the authority to nullify the law. The majority opinion ruled that the law doesn't violate the Constitution.

This would be swell if there was any objectivity to this process at all. As it is, something being "constitutional" seems to have a lot more to do with what side of the bed a judge got up on that day. The justifications in the written decisions often read like the explanations in the old "Prizeword Pete" puzzles. A long dissertation that sometimes seems to boil down to "because I think so."

Doesn't it bother you that, when not a single letter of the Constitution has changed in years, that things can be "constitutional" one month, and not so the next, depending on who's looking at it?

No wonder everyone gets hives thinking about the Other Party nominating judges to lifetime terms. We're picking frigging KINGS here.

I dare say that if the framers had known how the Constitution was going to become a "living document," they would have used up a lot more pages spelling things out more carefully. Kind of like when you are making three wishes to a hostile genie.

But they came from a different culture, I guess.

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