Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘dangerous authoritarian expansion of power’ in Supreme Court

Odusei@kbin.social to Politics@kbin.social – 138 points – Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘dangerous authoritarian expansion of power’ in Supreme Court
thehill.com

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the…

16

AOC for president, what a breath of fresh air

I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

In a more reasonable world, I would like to see her get at least 5 more years experience as a senator before running.

Yeah, this is not the reasonable world timeline so lets get her going!

SCOTUS has definitely shaped their opinions to give them the final say in just about everything the government does.

That's only because our legislative branch is entirely ineffective.

It's very effective, it's just we've decided to vote in a bunch of plutocrats to manage it.

Indeed. They surely got no problems providing welfare, tax cuts and good policy for legal persons to develop and grow strong!

I think it's worse now. Even if the legislature gets fixed, SCOTUS would shoot down everything they don't want.

The constitution did that...

Also, congress can legislate as they please as long as it doesn't violate the constitution.

Congress chooses not to do that for most things peasants care or need done.

we should abolish the constitution and start over. it's an outdated piece of paper that doesn't treat me like a human being.

I wonder what her opinion is on the Israeli judicial reform.

Actually on second thought I don't really care to know