From Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address:
[I]f the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
That’s increasingly becoming the question, isn’t it? Whether the judicial branch is equal to the legislative and executive branches, or more equal.
If Trump manages to settle this question in a way that restores co-equality among the branches of government, that should earn him a place on Mount Rushmore.
Ruth Ward et Rick Ladd removenda sunt
