It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
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If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.
The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.
The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure.
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.
I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.
Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.
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