SCOTUS got where it is because for fifty years there was only one question that decided if a president would nominate a candidate to be a justice. Each president not only demanded a "right" answer, but each also demanded an absolute certainty on that answer. After that, all other considerations, including competency to be a judge, were ignored. The ability to survive a senate committee hearing was the only other criterion.
When all your nominees are incompetent extremists...
@rbreich The Major Questions Doctrine and limits on Chevron are not examples of SCOTUS getting "out of control;" they're attempts to rein in bureaucrats who have gotten out of control. The bribery, on the other hand....
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Gee, what could go wrong when you have a system where politicans appoint justices? Also why were their no consequences when Merrick Garland was denied a hearing. The Senate shirked its duties.
Let's face it. Those "checks and balances" that we learned about in school don't actually exist in reality.