Comment by tmp10423288442
3 hours ago
> the current supreme court seems perfectly willing to throw out decades of settled law on an ideological whim, and actually, for that matter, happily interpret very clear congressional statutes in very odd ways
Fortunately or unfortunately, the Supreme Court has always been willing to do that. This court has been overruling decisions of the Warren Court, just as the Warren Court overruled decisions from the Lochner Era.
Overruling bad decisions is not a problem. Following is a problem:
> decades of settled law on an ideological whim, and actually, for that matter, happily interpret very clear congressional statutes in very odd ways
This court is not like the previos one. Things are not the same