People forget, I think, that with all of the bickering between Congress and the White House, the force most strongly affecting this country in the long run may well be the Supreme Court of the United States of America, or SCOTUS. While the House and Senate debate laws and the White House makes questionable executive decisions, SCOTUS deliberates on how laws can or cannot be applied and write opinions which effect how those laws get written in the future. SCOTUS decisions are far more wide-reaching than people care to see and the decisions themselves are being made by lawyers so removed from any sense of accountability that they will sometimes say and do whatever they like without a filter.
As important as it is that we have an independent court system, we all need to pay attention and react when they do things we don't like. We may not be able to change their decisions, but we can certainly influence the people who appoint them.
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