Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The power comes from people letting them do it, and also to a degree common sense... SOMEBODY has to do it.
The constitution would be more strictly interpreted if more people were willing to take up arms to effect that. Apparently they aren't to willing or concerned.
I agree with your sentiment. Just because people let you do something does not make it lawful. If the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land and does not grant the Supreme Court the ability for judicial review, then the Supreme Court is acting unlawfully, whether or not the people let them. By allowing the Supreme Court to act as such, it has in effect undermined the law.
How can the Supreme Court uphold the Constitution when they themselves act in direct opposition to it?
The 10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Seems like that would be applicable given the circumstances.