> (as the court is the last defender of the constitution)
and in part I was responding to that, and
other claims, that the SCOTUS is
the 'last word' or some such. And recently there
is a Jefferson quote on one of the related
threads here on HN where Jefferson
in effect says that the SCOTUS judges
are no less corrupt, etc. than people in
other branches of government. The
conclusion is that, really, the last word
and too often the crucial word on
what is constitutional has to
be the voters who tell Congress what
to do and/or push through a
constitutional amendment. So, I
was trying to be realistic and correct
about the real role of the SCOTUS
in protecting, say, the Fourth Amendment
and not to push politics.
