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Democracy isn’t when appointed officials always side with other appointed officials.
Democracy isn’t when appointed officials always side with other appointed officials.
They interpret the law. And when existing law has bad policy outcomes people get made that 9 unelected lawyers in robes aren’t legislating for us. When the out comes are good people don’t hear about them or forget them.
SCOTUS wouldn’t rule that. The whole idea of a corrupt judiciary is just a back lash at originalism gaining favor over living constitutionalism. They aren’t ‘evil’ they just don’t have a judicial philosophy from the 1960s.
Maybe that massive standing army isn’t a good thing to have. A lot of the original criticisms match our current army pretty well.
There’s a catch 22 here. Symbols get adopted by groups who recontextualize them. Then people only view them in the context of those groups. Effectively ceding symbols to them.
The jury came to that same conclusion. It definitely isn’t a fringe belief.