Commentary: The Supreme Court is not accountable to the people. So what can check its power?
by David Cole, Los Angeles Times
Jun 29, 2022
3 minutes
If Supreme Court justices had to run for reelection, a number of them would be in big trouble. Last week the court issued radical decisions that boldly defied American opinion on both abortion and guns. It overturned Roe v. Wade and about 20 other cases that had protected the right to abortion for a half-century. And in the wake of some of the worst mass shootings in American history, it struck down a New York law dating to 1911 that required people to demonstrate a need before being authorized
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