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VIEWPOINT | Country's founders wouldn't recognize what Supreme Court has become
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VIEWPOINT | Country's founders wouldn't recognize what Supreme Court has become

Guest column by David Adler, president of The Alturas Institute

Jul 28, 2025
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It is an irony of American legal history that the U.S. Supreme Court, armed with the power of judicial review to police constitutional boundaries, has rendered decisions that have increased presidential power to a degree that constitutes an extraordinary transformation.

The framers could not have dreamed that the judiciary, which Alexander Hamilton called “the least dangerous branch,” would perceive judicial power as a license to expand executive authority.

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