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Their wordsIn a nutshell, the book argues that the real problem with today's Court is that it has become unaccountable to any other institution of government-free to do just about whatever it wants, whenever it wants.
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The Supreme Court's recent trend of filing opinions for emergency relief is a positive development.
Their wordsAnd insofar as the Court really is committed to filing opinions of the Court in (almost) every case in which it grants emergency relief, that strikes me as an unequivocally positive development, and one for which the justices should be commended.
Their wordsExpanding the Court would be seen unequivocally for what it is-partisan political power being used for partisan political purposes, which does precisely nothing for the diffuse public support that is the actual source of the Court's power.
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