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Old 07-01-2004, 05:23   #20
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Originally posted by VMI_Marine
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.
If that's the case then the fault lies with Congress. For all the lawyers Congress has, you'd think that they would do their own vetting of a new law against the Constitution.

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They don't have near the kind of accountability to the American public that the actual law-makers have.
I usually sit in the middle politically. I really haven't seen all that many judgements, or whatever they're called, that were out of line once you threw out the politics of the situation and looked at it from a neutral point of view. Sure there's been a few questionable calls and if I was a political animal I can see where I'd be pissed about them, but the Constitution isn't about "me", it's about the United States and it's future.

IMO, of course.
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