A Hair-Raising SCOTUS Curtain-Raiser
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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Legitimacy Is the Key to the Supreme Court's Success
The supreme court cannot enforce its own decisions. It relies on nothing less or more than magic to transmografy its words into the law. The only thing that could potentially bring it down is if it just loses all its legitimacy and we decide collectively, we are not going to adhere to its decisions. And i would add one other note: There are two ways to achieve public legitimacy. One is to demand a press corps that just slavishly reports on you as the nine most brilliant, perfect, neutral arbiters of truth ever born. That seems to be the preferred method. But there's a second method - control yourselves. Don't fly to rome and sike the football after
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