Politics: The Supreme Court’s Backdoor

There is something very weird going on in the modern world of politics in relation to how the law is supposed to work at the highest level. It seems that John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, doesn’t fully understand how the very court he serves on works to the point of inventing a backdoor with the legal challenges that come before it.

What do I mean by that? Well, whenever a Republican side is arguing in favor of something, but doing a terrible job at it, John doesn’t have the patients for these fools over their terrible legal arguments. But he does seem to always say in these decisions that fail can come back with a better argued case in the end. That’s not how the Supreme Court works. Well, it shouldn’t be how the Supreme Court works, but maybe that will change now.

You might point out the fact that there are a lot of Supreme Court decisions that overturned previous decisions. This seems normal, right? Why is this a new thing that changes too much of what’s going on?

Well, the cases that overturned previous ones were ones that took time to go through the whole court system again. They weren’t just ones that immediately returned to the court after they had failed right before it.

Another failure of this new policy is that they are excusing failures and giving these people a second chance that they don’t deserve. There have been numerous Supreme Court cases that reaffirmed the Affordable Care Act, for instance. All this time and Republicans have yet to find any evidence that it has actually harmed people. This is despite the alternative fact that people have not kept their doctor under it. And while the courts have still ruled against a repeal with John even seeming like a constant vote in favor of it, he seems to keep arguing that if they actually had good arguments, that it can come up in court.

This isn’t how the court is supposed to work, as stated before. The decisions of the Supreme Court are supposed to be final. They aren’t supposed to be just overturned on later decisions willy nilly as if the whole process to get there didn’t matter at all whatsoever. And while it could take a while for any of these decisions to reach the court again, it should not be the role of the court to overturn what it doesn’t like whenever it wants to.