For one court to come to this conclusion and then enforce a large scale national policy shift, even temporarily in the case of the ruling being over turned by a higher court, is a pretty jarring exercise of power by an unelected official over an elected one.
This pretty much sums up Biden’s presidency. SCOTUS finally realized it was BS conveniently when the Dems tried the same tactic against Trump.
Also, elected vs unelected doesn’t mean a whole lot at this point. It’s hard to call what we have “elections” given that we’re only presented a couple of options at most, and despite that, there aren’t really special distinctions between the powers of an elected vs appointed official outside of what their roles are.
More specifically, we’re given the options that the RNC and DNC give us. We should have a national primary on the same day nationwide … the current system allows for way too much money to be thrown around when Iowa doesn’t go the committees’ way.
I’m sorry, but I don’t give a shit what Iowans want in a presidential election. And yet …
The thing about primaries is that they’re largely internal affairs of parties. That’s why things like super delegates can exist. Like states do make laws regarding them, but there isn’t much actual legal framework about them.
Changes to them mostly are handled with in the respective party structure. Federal legislation regularizing them would raise some legitimately interesting legal questions.
This pretty much sums up Biden’s presidency. SCOTUS finally realized it was BS conveniently when the Dems tried the same tactic against Trump.
Also, elected vs unelected doesn’t mean a whole lot at this point. It’s hard to call what we have “elections” given that we’re only presented a couple of options at most, and despite that, there aren’t really special distinctions between the powers of an elected vs appointed official outside of what their roles are.
More specifically, we’re given the options that the RNC and DNC give us. We should have a national primary on the same day nationwide … the current system allows for way too much money to be thrown around when Iowa doesn’t go the committees’ way.
I’m sorry, but I don’t give a shit what Iowans want in a presidential election. And yet …
The thing about primaries is that they’re largely internal affairs of parties. That’s why things like super delegates can exist. Like states do make laws regarding them, but there isn’t much actual legal framework about them.
Changes to them mostly are handled with in the respective party structure. Federal legislation regularizing them would raise some legitimately interesting legal questions.
We are, after all, in an era of interesting legal questions.