@marcelias Some of them should be in jail. Blatant, in-your-face corruption. How could any decision made by this court have validity? The 'Supreme' Court has gone completely off the rails. #SCOTUS #corruption
Well that's easy: the decisions made by this Court have validity because they follow the prescribed procedures and have constitutional sanction.
You may not like the decisions or the people personally involved, but they check their boxes, and so they are valid.
Well no that's not right. That's not how the US system works.
The majority of Supreme Court influence comes from the recognition of lower courts, since it is a court of appeals. It's when lower courts abide by Supreme Court precedent that most of their influence impacts the world.
And thank goodness that's the case! Because the general public has no idea what the Supreme Court actually says or does or rules. There is so much misinformation out there.
So long as the lower courts are paying attention and well informed and actually abiding by the Supreme Court rulings the system will keep working, regardless of the nonsense going around social media and network television.
@volkris