John Smyzer's Ramblings

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision denied a woman's petition for discrimination against her company because she did not file within the time line established [by law]. As I understand it, one has 180 days to file such a lawsuit and she in fact was well past the established criteria.
While I find it difficult to see how the four on the court in the minority could possibly vote the way they did, this decision manifests very clearly the idea of legislating from the bench. The majority merely said, the law says x,y,z. If you in fact want to change the law Congress, have at it; for whatever reason, the minority on the court simply wanted to do this themselves.
The idea is simple - would you rather have the nine justices making your laws or your representatives in Congress? Making Congress the lawmakers at least gives a better chance for us all being represented.

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