« Reply #281 on: February 03, 2017, 02:48:51 am »
Article III of the Constitution. It empowers the Court with "appellate jurisdiction", as to both "Law and Fact", over matters within its jurisdiction.
That means it can interpret the Constitution, and authoritatively so.
And so 9 Justices in black robes can decide to interpret the Constitution to mean that blacks are only 3/5ths a person and therefore ineligible to vote or that it also impels all White Southern Conservative males to pay 95% of their income for reparations for Slavery and that is Authoritative Constitutional Law according to your imbecillic and idiotic reasoning.
"Law and Fact" has become whatever they decide the law and the facts are. Something you applaud with great vigor.
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