Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The courts must defer to the elected branches of government, except when it comes to expanding Medicaid or regulating gun ownership or the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or the Violence Against Women Act or ... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 3, 2021 Hibernated

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Except in the many, many, many, many, many cases when their rulings have the opposite direction. — PolitiTweet.org

The Conservative legal movement's view for literal decades has been that the Court is an unelected body of legislat… https://t.co/njtzCN61un

Posted Dec. 3, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My basic view is that in a proper system of government courts should have almost no power, but in the United States the elected branches *also* have very little democratic legitimacy so it's extremely hard to have a coherent view about how branches should relate. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 3, 2021 Hibernated