Who Will Stand Up to the Supreme Court Justices?

[LeftInTX]

5. Right now we don't have the right type of President, Senate and House that they had in the 1860s

Lincoln was able to pass legislation because many of the opposing party had left the union.

In 1862, Congress and President Abraham Lincoln enacted legislation that banned slavery in places the Dred Scott decision had protected.

It went downhill under Andrew Johnson.

In the 1870s, the court re-emerged to finish what it had started. Seizing for itself the power to decide the meaning of the amendments Congress had just drafted, the court announced that it was not “appropriate” for Congress to ban lynching, racial discrimination by businesses or widespread disenfranchisement. A century-long era of Jim Crow emerged.

We need people on our side running the show, not their side.

This is all fine and good, but pretty much a pie in the sky.

We would pretty much need a constitutional amendment to limit their powers.