Give me an example of what you consider a "right wing extremist" ruling by the Supreme Court. In reality, the "right wing" and "left wings" of this country have both been unhappy with the court. Have you read the various opinions including the Constitutional support behind them? Or are you spouting nonsense?
After 9/11, the Congress passed the Patriot Act on a bipartisan basis the vote being 357-66 in the House and 98-1 in the Senate. I don't remember the Republicans ever having 98 out of a 100 Senators. The reason for the bill is over, we need to curb the powers of the President to pass laws especially ones related to domestic policies. We have a system where whenever the party in power changes hundreds of laws are "cancelled" and hundreds more enacted by the President's pen, that is not how our country was designed to operate.
Typically, Congress has not been the problem, the problem has mostly been in the White House and the various agencies. Thankfully, the SCOTUS has declared agencies can no longer implement major laws and regulations without Congressional approval, they are restricted to clarifications.
I have said that the federal government should limit itself to what it was designed to do. The 13th and 14th amendment were clarifications of the government's responsibility to protect the human rights of US citizens. Actually, the Constitution does not "constrain" the states, it divides "powers
between those enumerated to the federal government and the remainder being powers of the state. The federal government and state government have no "powers" that allow them to infringe on the unalienable human rights. So for example, unborn babies have the unalienable right to life and women have if you stretch the definition of the pursuit of happiness to include reproductive rights have a right to an abortion. When human rights of two parties are unreconcilable then normally either the state or the federal government through its elected bodies can determine how to resolve the conflict.
I see Trump neither a victim or a savior, But rather Trump is a product of Democrats attempt to transform our country into a federalized system whereby states act more like provinces than semi-independent nations bound together under a constitution to create a more "perfect union".
The electoral college was created to balance the interests of the smaller states with the larger ones. It was the Senate (our version of the House of Lords) that was created to balance the excesses of the masses. Remember originally Senators were appointed by state legislators not elected by the masses. However, the electoral college stands as a reminder we are not a "single" democracy, but a union of fifty "nation" states that elect "electors" in order to determine who will preside over this "union".
Trump actually has dismantled power. Look at how he vs Biden acted during Covid. Trump issued recommendations from Washington, that governors accepted or rejected, but Biden issued mandates that applied to the whole country.
Biden conducted purges of the military. The Democrats tried to eliminate the filibuster and pack the court. Trump did on occasion attempt to exceed his authority but pulled back when told he had done so. Biden implemented "work arounds" through his various agencies, that took Supreme Court rulings to stop.
However, we would not be having this discussion if the President and the federal government had far less power. So, thanks for making my point.
