badgenome on 02 June 2012
| nuckles87 said: This is one of numerous instances where liberals and libertarians can agree: unchecked Supreme Court power needs to go. It does at least as much harm as it does good, and it has no place in a democracy. |
I don't actually think there are "numerous" instances of agreement between liberals and libertarians, assuming by "liberals" you mean leftists. And this certainly isn't one of them as libertarians generally haven't had a huge beef with the Supreme Court and definitely not with the Roberts Court. The SCOTUS does, in fact, have checks placed on it. It is limited to dealing with the cases at hand, and despite all the bitching about "legislating from the bench", Congress always has the option of overruling them by amending the Constitution if it's really so damned important.
So, if anything, this is an instance of the left and right agreeing, but each side only dislikes "judicial activism" when it goes against its preferences.
