Various reforms of #SupremeCourt —court expansion, #termlimits, court balancing, and #ethics reform. All of these accept premise that #SCOTUS should keep its power over #elected branches of #government. These reforms R focused on forcing court 2 use #power more fairly, more justly, w less #corruption. While those R noble goals, underlying premise is flawed. Instead of reforming how Supreme Court uses its #power, what if we took its power away? #democracy #courts #maga https://www.thenation.com/podcast/society/contempt-court-jurisdiction-stripping/
The problem is that the premise is completely wrong in the frist place. We've ALREADY taken that power away... the Supreme Court never had it to begin with, doesn't have it today, and cannot have it under the core design of the US government.
Yes, so much reporting keeps getting that factually wrong. We need better reporting, and we need to stop giving clicks to the outfits and politicians that promote that misinformation.
No, SCOTUS does not have power of the elected branches of government. That fact is core to so many of their rulings where they emphasize that they don't.
We need better civics understanding so folks don't fall for that sort of rhetoric.
