A question

[madamesilverspurs]

How can we have three co-equal branches of government when only one of them is sacrosanct?

The Executive answers to us, as does the Legislative.

Why is the Judicial the exception?


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[Effete Snob]

1. That is more or less the point

One of their arguments is that decisions of this sort shouldn’t be up to them, but to those more directly accountable branches.

That is what they are saying - “Go deal with legislatures and executives who answer to you.”

It is a problematic argument since the idea of judicial independence is precisely to protect the rights of those whom a purely democratic majority would oppress.

[RockRaven]

2. Along this trajectory lies a breaking point - and it will be very dangerous times - where the other

branches of government (specifically executive) are going to have a true, non-apocryphal Jackson-Marshall or Stalin-Pope moment. That's very bad, because then the constitution is irrevocably in the trash. And we're closer to that today than we were yesterday. Because of the Republican Court.