Thanks, the great Hungry Professor lol. I enjoy this video a lot. As an outsider though, my view is the SCOTUS is more political than anything else, as the Senate and the House, as political as they are, are accountable for their actions in some way. Senators and Congressmen/women use politics to achieve certain non-political results and if they can't, they get replaced "quickly". With that said, I was kinda looking forward in this video a discussion of how RGB's untimely death became somewhat of a turning point for the SCOTUS. For all that she has achieved, her decision to not retire under Obama, in my mind, underscored what she could have done better for the country. I could be wrong, surely...
@nxhaivn Perhaps we are using the word "political" in two different ways. Based on what you describe, it sounds like we are in agreement about the Supreme Court being the least political, i.e. the least affected by the whims of the people. I particularly stayed away from the politics of RBG not stepping down in the video, but I agree that it is hard not to see that as a huge stain on her record. After watching the CNN documentary, I got the sense that she was a workaholic who just couldn't step away. It's probably true of a lot of supreme court justices. This memoir still had the effect of blistering my trust in the institution. Not necessarily each individual, or even every single court, but the institution as a whole. It swings back and forth, but is much more stable than any other branch of the US government.
I have always thought of the USSC as an academic institution, somewhat of a super library for our law system.
Thanks, the great Hungry Professor lol. I enjoy this video a lot. As an outsider though, my view is the SCOTUS is more political than anything else, as the Senate and the House, as political as they are, are accountable for their actions in some way. Senators and Congressmen/women use politics to achieve certain non-political results and if they can't, they get replaced "quickly". With that said, I was kinda looking forward in this video a discussion of how RGB's untimely death became somewhat of a turning point for the SCOTUS. For all that she has achieved, her decision to not retire under Obama, in my mind, underscored what she could have done better for the country. I could be wrong, surely...
@nxhaivn Perhaps we are using the word "political" in two different ways. Based on what you describe, it sounds like we are in agreement about the Supreme Court being the least political, i.e. the least affected by the whims of the people. I particularly stayed away from the politics of RBG not stepping down in the video, but I agree that it is hard not to see that as a huge stain on her record. After watching the CNN documentary, I got the sense that she was a workaholic who just couldn't step away. It's probably true of a lot of supreme court justices. This memoir still had the effect of blistering my trust in the institution. Not necessarily each individual, or even every single court, but the institution as a whole. It swings back and forth, but is much more stable than any other branch of the US government.