Left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tries to enlighten the rest of us on the need for Congress to “rein in” a “rogue” Supreme Court. She demands that the Supreme Court be “accountable” to Congress. Unless I am mistaken, Ms. Cortez is a high school graduate. But apparently they didn’t teach civics in her tony suburban high school:
AOC: If Congress can’t “rein in" the Supreme Court, then we are heading towards "authoritarianism, tyranny and the abuse of power."
“It’s not a question if congress has jurisdiction over the Supreme Court, it is what power are we going to exercise to rein in a fundamentally… pic.twitter.com/H4tmMlznmG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 12, 2024
So Sandy thinks that Congress has “jurisdiction over” the Supreme Court, an equal branch of government. I don’t suppose she has ever read the Constitution, and the people who admire and vote for her probably have no idea how absurd her demands are.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with elementary civics. Rather, leftists are outraged that there is one branch of the federal government that they don’t control. Not only that, the Supreme Court persists in deciding cases in ways that, while consistent with the Constitution and federal law, don’t necessarily comport with the Left’s policy preferences. The horror!
Democrats yearn for the good old days when the Court could be counted on to decree–if necessary, to fabricate out of whole cloth–liberal policies that couldn’t get through Congress. It was easier to be a Democrat then. So, while we can laugh at Sandy Cortez’s ignorance, I take seriously the Left’s current assault on the conservative members (and only the conservative members) of the Court.
