05-09-2019, 07:31 PM
rjmacs wrote:
Remember - the SCotUS would really prefer not to decide these cases. Every time it has to make a close call on an issue that divides Americans, it spends a lot of its political capital, which is hard to earn. The Court is the one branch of government whose power rests solely in its reputation for legitimacy. Its only true enforcement power is that people respect its decisions.
With the Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade (and possible other popular civil rights protections), some justices (and certainly Chief Justice Roberts) will be carefully weighing what cases it cannot avoid taking, and deciding many of them as closely as possible so as to avoid the wrath of the public.
Do you happen to have a link to a source that lays out the issue of "actionable" stuff and the pace at which the courts will probably proceed with the House's suits against the Trump administration? I have tried different terms in Google searches but I'm not having any luck.