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Any history experts here know why and how the SCOTUS became so damn POWERFUL?

WHO do they answer to??

-C!

To whom does the Supreme Court answer? It is structurally constrained by the executive’s power of appointment and enforcement, congressional control over the its size and jurisdiction, and the (to say the least arduous) process of constitutional amendment. Also, state and federal legislatures can and frequently do rewrite laws to bypass the Supreme Court's rulings that a current law is unconstitutional -- but if a law is held to be substantively unconstitutional, that kind of bypass isn't possible (e.g., the 16th Amendment was passed specifically to bypass a Supreme Court ruling that federal income taxes were unconstitutional).

Re: The threat of implementing The Insurrection Act in Minnesota... I read this online:

Minnesota NEEDS to deploy the National Guard on a mission of “maintaining the peace between ICE and protestors.”

It BLOCKS the president from nationalizing.

The Insurrection Act requires that the State has “failed” or “refused” to engage in protections.

The Guard CANNOT be nationalized while responding to that same mission.

The difference here is the way Governor Walz would instruct “maintaining peace” is dramatically different than Trump.

Walz would also have oversight control and accountability over the States National Guard forces.

If Walz fails to call them up, it gives Trump grounds in the legal battle.

-C!

This is the MLK holiday weekend.

Why do I have this feeling that something even worse is going to happen........ 🤔