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> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constitution-day-w
by shadowfacts 1y ago
> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constitution-day-washington-dc https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constituti...
The Supreme Court is not the ultimate decider of what the layman's document means. It was wrong when it decided, for instance, Plessy v. Ferguson. The law that the Court upheld patently violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court was simply wrong.
- Hnrobert42 1y agoIt can both be wrong and the ultimate decider.
- soulofmischief 1y agoThat doesn't make something Constitutional or not, especially when they choose to ignore extremely plain and direct language.
- Hnrobert42 1y agoBy definition, the Supreme Court does decide what is Constitutional. It doesn't decide what is right or moral, but it does, according to the Constitution, decide what laws conform to the Constitution.
- soulofmischief 1y agoThat is their job, yes. But they don't always do their job, especially in a compromised government. Let's not pretend that Trump didn't stack the courts.