Reply #17: We also have to start WRITING LAWS [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

The Supreme Court can't easily overturn a well-written law that passes Constitutional muster. That explains why a number of progressive laws have "been allowed to stay on the books". The Supreme Court hesitate become a law unto themselves -- they work on the premise of slowing down change, not speeding it up.

So what we need to do is to write laws that codify the most vulnerable progressive decisions, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade">Roe v Wade, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona">Miranda v Arizona, and overturn stinkers like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo">Buckley v Valeo. Shifting the action from the Judicial branch to the Legislative will give us a much more secure route to maintaining a democratic America.

--p!