Ask a comrade: How does SCOTUS know what others mean to say?



Q: Why does the Supreme Court decide what a recently passed law means? The people who wrote and passed the law are still around, why don't the authors get to say what it means?
A: That's just the American constitutional process. Which the framers didn't know about until the very first Supreme Court divined it hidden in the Constitution. This is called a ruling by divined right. Only judges, or better yet justices, can decipher the true meanings because they're encrypted in what they call the legal code.
Then there's the Constitution. Being a living document, it needs doctoring.
The court not only says what the Constitution and laws mean, they also define the words used. And so 'fine' means 'tax' and 'state' really means 'national government.' As a result, lawmakers don't know the meaning of the laws they're writing or passing until the Supreme Court tells them afterward. This explains why Congress must pass a law in order to find out what's in it. These are laws of unintended consequences.
You can think of Supreme Court justices as sort-of law seers. They wear black robes, sprinkle their speech with Latin, and meet in special justice chambers to communicate with the spirit of the law. All this helps them reach a decision, which often require a lot of language stretching because some decisions are quite a reach.



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You can think of Supreme Court justices as sort-of law seers. They wear black robes, sprinkle their speech with Latin, and meet in special justice chambers to communicate with the spirit of the law.Personally, I'm impressed with their crystal balls. Especially Elena Kagan's.

Sir, I will get to the point...
My mother left me this picture - are you my father?
Thank you,
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Is like Oracle of early greek democrazy, only not young womyn high on gases...


Statist/Socialist/Progressives see the constitution of the United States as what we call a “living, breathing document”. This is a cover we use for molding and shaping the constitution for our own ends for as we all know it was written by dead white slave owners over 200 years ago and none of it applies to the modern nirvana that Liberal/Progressive/Socialists seek to create to improve the lives of all Amerikans.
It is for the purpose of expanding the power and reach of the federal leviathan that Liberal/Marxist/Progressives seek to populate the Supreme Court and all of its lower federal court system with as many of our fellow travelers as we can so that they can find whatever Liberal/Progressive/Socialists need to negate the constitution emanating from its penumbra.




Comrade Putout reminds me she retained not only a picture when she
.Sir, I will get to the point...
My mother left me this picture - are you my father?
Thank you,
May
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Will Beria
Only judges, or better yet justices, can decipher the true meanings because they're encrypted in what they call the legal code.Thanks for clearing that up for me. I always thought they used magic decoder rings.



Well, they just(ice) do! It's that simple.
And, that's all you need to know.


Lev Termen
Thanks Lev. Your post conjured up the 80's with song lyrics looping in my head: