I disagree. We just saw the utility in this because a popular constitutional amendment over-turned a bad Supreme Court decision in 2020. It's not a great system, but I'll take any judicial accountability over none. If the people are gonna have to learn the hard way, then let them.
I don't see why the legislature couldn't have done that. Frankly the power of a single court system to direct and shift culture for an entire state/nation is a different fundamental problem, and letting a popular amendment override a court decision is a weird hack to get around it. I suppose most mechanisms of government are merely half-baked trade-offs taping over the other problems that government caused.
That would be nice, but it would require a significant change in how judicial overturn works, and how the legislature could be made more accountable. Right now, the legislature just can't. Ohio's ability to just have a popular petition to an amendment is a good tool for popular dissent against an establishment structure. Fundamentally, Ohio is a Republican establishment state, so unfortunately, this is working as intended. The fact that Republicans aren't interested in turning out is a full scale failure of their strategy.
We're on the same page of this is all half-baked trade-offs, but that's where we are at at the moment.
I would be happy to overturn Marbury v. Madison, but no one listens to me in normie world.
Nothing should. Except maybe who you want to run your HOA or little league team.
I disagree. We just saw the utility in this because a popular constitutional amendment over-turned a bad Supreme Court decision in 2020. It's not a great system, but I'll take any judicial accountability over none. If the people are gonna have to learn the hard way, then let them.
I don't see why the legislature couldn't have done that. Frankly the power of a single court system to direct and shift culture for an entire state/nation is a different fundamental problem, and letting a popular amendment override a court decision is a weird hack to get around it. I suppose most mechanisms of government are merely half-baked trade-offs taping over the other problems that government caused.
That would be nice, but it would require a significant change in how judicial overturn works, and how the legislature could be made more accountable. Right now, the legislature just can't. Ohio's ability to just have a popular petition to an amendment is a good tool for popular dissent against an establishment structure. Fundamentally, Ohio is a Republican establishment state, so unfortunately, this is working as intended. The fact that Republicans aren't interested in turning out is a full scale failure of their strategy.
We're on the same page of this is all half-baked trade-offs, but that's where we are at at the moment.
I would be happy to overturn Marbury v. Madison, but no one listens to me in normie world.