U.S. Supreme Court
Jul. 18, 2023
The arrogance of power
The Court has its lowest public confidence and approval ratings in history. I have the strong sense that if the Court continues down this path of judicial arrogance there will be increasingly strong negative reactions.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
What most emerges from a reading of this term’s Supreme Court decisions is that these are justices who defer to no one. There is an overwhelming sense in reading the opinions that the justices believe that they know best for the country and feel no need to give much weight to the judgment of others.
There certainly is no deference to the President and the executive branch of government. President Joe Biden provided 43 million individuals w...
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