Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the term. “The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see…

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    1 year ago

    Yea they shouldn’t be involved with legislating but our legislature and the people meant to represent us have devolved so much that the Supreme Court is basically the only functioning legislating body—and has been for a long time, atleast since Roe vs. Wade.

    Our legislature is a failure, the Supreme Court as it stands wouldn’t have much power or authority to make these legal changes if this country actually made laws.