The Supreme Court’s Power Is Fake
Kikoff is giving my audience 80% off your first month (that’s as low as $1 for your first month with the discount!). Go to https://getkikoff.com/leeja | Judicial supremacy is bad for democracy, and the outsized, unchecked power of the US Supreme Court has no basis in the Constitution. In fact, the case that established the power of judicial review, Marbury vs Madison, incorrectly quotes the Constitution. Based on this lie, the court has expanded its power to outsized proportions since the initial decision in 1803.
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@LeejaMiller
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
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@vilmariehernandez1189
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
Yes finally omfg all of it is fake I'm so happy to see this video title
@fattybiscuit3495
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
I just had my own constitutional law midterm (it went…ok). It's a bit disheartening to find out that the court's ability to decide all these cases I had to learn is kind of bunk. Here's hoping the midterms play out (and yes i'm voting).
@Randoplants
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
I knew this was bunk the moment I learned about it in school. I kept wondering, ‘But what if there are corrupt people in the roles who entrench themselves?’
The explanation I was given: Not being subject to elections means the justices can be impartial.
My first thought: ‘What if they aren’t impartial?’
@truetory6231
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
So basically the US was supposed to have congressional supremacy similar to a parliamentary system but the court usurped it to replace with judicial supremacy instead
@ghohenzollern
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
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@ghohenzollern
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
I'm confused here. Given the supreme Court can overrule any lower court, doesn't that basically grant it the right to do so on the basis of the Constitution, effectively striking down laws? If not, then how is the Constitution any better than any other law? What is there to stop Congress from passing laws that effectively invalidate key constitutional protections, because they happen to be unpopular at the moment? I like your suggestions about ways that Congress could check supreme Court power, but I don't see you saying why Congress would ever be so magnanimous, when they could just grab all the power for themselves? Having said that, I do think that the supreme Court has over time earned a great deal of respect and that is what their real power is based on. And it is important for people like you to point out that they are losing our respect, to the extent that people are talking about trying to officially take away some of their power. Ideally, this should give them pause before making the kind of ridiculously unpopular rulings they have been recently. Unless, perhaps, idealogues on the court see ways to get their way regardless of how much power the court has, by handing over that power willingly to a temporarily aligned Congress.
@hipsabad
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
Leeja, I see Hyperpolitics on your desk, great read! Blakely's also brief book Lost in Ideology goes well with it
@Theories4freedom
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
I've been saying this for years, but I'm glad right now to hear it from someone who knows more about the law and its interpretations than I do.
@Robert_Douglass
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
This is because Money has always been Power for as long as money and power have both existed. That's why 90% of politics is economics to begin with.
What needs to occur is a separation of Money from Power, a divorce between the two, and this can only happen through a redefinition of power. We do not confer POWER on our elected representatives or executive agents, we CHARGE them with RESPONSIBILITY to carry out our will. Somewhere along the way American government forgot that basic principle, or else we'd have responsibility shifting from hand to hand far more frequently than it has been. We need public officials to be able to call for a regional or national plebiscite to hear the direct voice of the people in certain matters, and to call for a vote of no confidence in cases where a representative or an executive agent is acting in contravention to their mandate of responsibility as conferred upon them by their people. But because what we have is a system where currency equals voting power, we have an aristocracy of unaccountable billionaires and even one trillionaire as a veritable king over all the world.
And suddenly we're all sympathising with the French peasantry of the 1790s, in that there is a genuine sense of frustration that no force of law can turn this around and give people back their power, that we must once again remind the nobility what "consent of the governed" ultimately means once every other recourse has been expended.
@ChuckDasa
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
It is such a joke that the US is so absurdly broken and yet their leaders (yes Democrats AND Republicans) feel like they should (some "god" given right) police the rest of the world.
@ChadHawksworth-d6s
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
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October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
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October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
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October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
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@Seeking_fungi12
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
Voting should not be the only peaceful power we have left to make changes. We're dangerously close to relying on bullets instead of speech.
@UBETUBEME
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
Trumpedoism
Citizens we are the problem ?
Electing our oppressors and enslavers in to office to keep us all poor and dum/b
You are voting for the idiots again. Right ?
@donb7576
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
Well, you got quite a few things wrong in all this slop.
@davisbrowne1906
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
10:29 ❤
@Chocolatebananabread01
October 27, 2026 at 12:24 am
You would love it if you held the majority in the SCOTUS.