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Originally posted by Kyobanim
I was always under the impression that SCOTUS just interpreted the laws created by the legislative branch; Courts decide arguments about the meaning of laws, how they are applied, and whether they break the rules of the Constitution. So they are interpreting the Constitution.
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They do interpret the laws. However, I think the issue is that the legal precedents they set often make them very close to being a law-making body in and of themselves. They don't have near the kind of accountability to the American public that the actual law-makers have.