Re:Lord Camden on NSA Surveillance
by daeken on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @08:10PM
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As it stands, the court is the arbiter for whether a law (or section of a law) is legitimate and how it's applied. All this would do is remove the latency between legislation being written and it being 'tested'.
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Re:Lord Camden on NSA Surveillance
by maxerickson on Thursday September 06, 2012 @09:12AM
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It probably wouldn't be practical, given that they currently don't review anywhere near 100% of legislation (but maybe that is a feature).
I would be concerned about the situation where the court effectively ends up with a veto and maybe decides that they should be the ones in charge. The only way out of that pickle is to reject the constitution.