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The Supreme Court is doing exactly what a minority of voters, but a majority of right-wing congressmen want it to do. In the next couple of years, I expect the court to outlaw short sleeves on women's apparel.
"Hey, you know how there's a small Conservative majority in the Supreme Court? Well after the Civil War, when the Southern states had no political power, we used Congress to steamroll the Supreme Court. So what if we did that again?"...."But the red states do have political power now, so we can't do any of that."...."Yeah...but it'd be cool if we could." This article, in a nutshell. >

A good part of the problem is that Congress is, and has been, so deadlocked it's almost impossible for it to pass any significant legislation. And that has handed over a huge amount of power to the courts. >

Right. Even when the Court struck down large parts of the Voting Rights Act under their insane “states rights” theory, they suggested Congress could just fix the VRA to restore it effectively, knowing that wouldn’t happen. But we’re past though point anyway. If Congress today passed Obama’s promised codification of Roe, the Court would simply strike it down. The reasoning doesn’t matter. They’ll strike it down based on whatever reason they want to.