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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

The New York Times Doesn't Understand How the Supreme Court Works

Rebecca Rebecca Downs December 20, 2022 

With the draft leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision in early May, which was ultimately handed down in late June, liberals and their allies in the mainstream media have been doubling down especially hard on the U.S. Supreme Court. As our friends at Twitchy recently pointed out, The New York Times on Monday published Adam Liptak's critical and rather ignorant headline, "An 'Imperial Supreme Court' Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars."................Other experts have another take, though. Curt Levey, a constitutional law attorney and the president of the Committee for Justice, pointed out the outrage when it comes to the shoe being on the other foot. 

"There’s nothing like a series of conservative victories at the Supreme Court to make progressives change their jurisprudential tune. From the time of the New Deal until very recently, the Left celebrated a Court with virtually unlimited power, including the power to create new rights, ignore rights explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, and eviscerate constitutional limits on federal authority. It is only in the last few years, as conservatives decisions at the High Court have begun to outnumber liberal ones, that Adam Liptak and his liberal colleagues have begun to worry that the Court is 'accumulating power at the expense of every other part of the government,'" he offered...........To Read More....

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