{"id":80445,"date":"2021-12-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80445"},"modified":"2021-12-30T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T07:52:37","slug":"wrong-solution-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80445","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Solution, Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Senator Elizabeth Warren <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2021\/12\/15\/sen-warren-announces-support-for-packing-the-supreme-court-n435728\">supports court-packin<\/a>g.  That&#8217;s really embarrassing for a Harvard law professor.  Even a night-school wonder like me, knows better. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The problem with the Supreme Court is not that it&#8217;s too small. The court is too large now, to get things done expeditiously and correctly: too many egos to sooth, too many agendas to accommodate, too many compromises requiring hair-splitting decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The problem is not that the court is full of justices eager to overturn precedent.  If a case was wrongly decided, it should be overturned in the interest of justice.    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The problem is not that the court veers away from widely held public opinion.  Pandering to public opinion is Congress&#8217; job.  And it&#8217;s mostly on volatile social issues where the Court has caused the worst problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The problem is Marbury v. Madison, a case decided fewer than 20 years after the Constitution was adopted.  That&#8217;s the case in which the Supreme Court gave itself the power to throw out legislation the Court felt was incompatible with the Constitution.  The court&#8217;s power-grab flatly contradicts the entire premise of a &#8220;enumerated powers&#8221; Constitution.  That decision set up the Court to make historically and horrifically bad law:  Dred Scott (struck down the Missouri Compromise which allowed slavery to spread to more states), Plessy v. Fergussn (upheld racial segregation); Korematsu (upheld concentration camps for American citizens); Roe v. Wade (upheld abortion on demand); Obergefell v. Hodges (struck down gay marriage laws nationwide).   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Adding more justices to a run-away court won&#8217;t rein it in from ruling on social issues.  A constitutional amendment is required.  And if that doesn&#8217;t curb their enthusiasm, perhaps removal from office?  A Harvard law professor should understand that.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There is limited evidence that Warren understands anything but getting and holding power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Senator Elizabeth Warren supports court-packing. That&#8217;s really embarrassing for a Harvard law professor. Even a night-school wonder like me, knows better. The problem with the Supreme Court is not that it&#8217;s too small. The court is too large now, to get things done expeditiously and correctly: too many egos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80446,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80445\/revisions\/80446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}