Actually, Dobbs Was the Opposite of a Power Grab

[Chris]

You might cite Marbury v Madison as a power grab but Actually, Dobbs Was the Opposite of a Power Grab. Dobbs was SCOTUS overturning SCOTUS.

In the Atlantic, Kimberly Wehle argues that:

By its own maneuvering, the modern Supreme Court has made itself the most powerful branch of government. Superior to Congress. Superior to the president. Superior to the states. Superior to precedent, procedure, and norms. In effect, superior to the people.

Interesting. What does Wehle have in mind?

Most talked about in this regard, of course, is the Court’s ending of long-established reproductive rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But the assertion of extreme power extends well beyond the issue of abortion.

Wait, what? Wehle’s primary example of the Supreme Court’s supposedly making “itself the most powerful branch of government” — “superior” in position to Congress, the president, the states, precedent, procedure, norms, and the people is . . . Dobbs? The case in which the Court overturned an act of astonishing judicial usurpation and sent power back to the people? The case that returned to the states an authority that the judiciary had falsely claimed for half a century. That was the “assertion of extreme power”?

This is completely backwards. It is an inversion of the truth. It is as upside-down as it is possible to get....

The Antlanta article can be found here: The Supreme Court Just Keeps Deciding It Should Be Even More Powerful.

[Peter1469]

Federalism is the opposite of a power grab.

[RMNIXON]

If the Constitution is as open to interpretation as the liberal insists then why can't SCOTUS re-examine previous rulings and overturn them?

This is about SCOTUS having Equal Powers as designed not becoming over powerful.

[LWW]

If the Constitution is as open to interpretation as the liberal insists then why can't SCOTUS re-examine previous rulings and overturn them?

This is about SCOTUS having Equal Powers as designed not becoming over powerful.

That’s easy.

Left wing democrats opposed the Dred Scott and Brown vs Board of Education decisions.