• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    …we learned that they’re “separate but equal” branches of government in school.

    Samsies. But then again, I don’t think normal people (our founders included) ever expected a willful collusion by a party to stack those branches of government in their favor.

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      The founders didn’t intend for the SCOTUS to be an equal branch of government. They just kinda started doing constitutional review, and multiple founders were explicit about how that’s not what they intended.