If the courts continue to be overly political, people are going to start ignoring them. I know this sounds a bit silly - if a criminal court sentences you for robbery, you're not going to just ignore it, obviously. But I worry about what happens if the Supreme Court overrules Obergefell or Loving. The married couples aren't going to cons…
If the courts continue to be overly political, people are going to start ignoring them. I know this sounds a bit silly - if a criminal court sentences you for robbery, you're not going to just ignore it, obviously. But I worry about what happens if the Supreme Court overrules Obergefell or Loving. The married couples aren't going to consider themselves unmarried, and I'll guarantee that some religious leaders will continue to officiate newly "outlawed" marriages. And once the SC outlaws abortion (you know it's coming), I suspect several states will just pretend they didn't hear it. Every one of these MAGA judge decisions makes the public more and more suspicious of the courts and the justice system. It's playing with fire.
There is great risk in that. One of the underappreciated (and little written on) aspects of the period of the Fall of the Roman Republic (~133 BC to 27 BC) was the collapse of comity and trust in the courts. Once the legitimacy of the courts collapse...the center cannot hold, literally.
Something that is consistently lost in the discourses about figures like Julius Caesar and his heir Octavian is they were the (for the time) progressives trying to institute reform and received popular support from the people because they had never known a time of real peace nd stability by the time for Caesar then Octavian really came into their power. Make people desperate enough....
If the courts continue to be overly political, people are going to start ignoring them. I know this sounds a bit silly - if a criminal court sentences you for robbery, you're not going to just ignore it, obviously. But I worry about what happens if the Supreme Court overrules Obergefell or Loving. The married couples aren't going to consider themselves unmarried, and I'll guarantee that some religious leaders will continue to officiate newly "outlawed" marriages. And once the SC outlaws abortion (you know it's coming), I suspect several states will just pretend they didn't hear it. Every one of these MAGA judge decisions makes the public more and more suspicious of the courts and the justice system. It's playing with fire.
There is great risk in that. One of the underappreciated (and little written on) aspects of the period of the Fall of the Roman Republic (~133 BC to 27 BC) was the collapse of comity and trust in the courts. Once the legitimacy of the courts collapse...the center cannot hold, literally.
Exactly. We HOPE for equity and justice from the legislative and executive branches but we RELY on the Courts to actually deliver equity and justice.
If that cannot be relied upon then guns families, feuds and mobs will follow.
Something that is consistently lost in the discourses about figures like Julius Caesar and his heir Octavian is they were the (for the time) progressives trying to institute reform and received popular support from the people because they had never known a time of real peace nd stability by the time for Caesar then Octavian really came into their power. Make people desperate enough....