VIEWPOINT | Country's founders wouldn't recognize what Supreme Court has become
Guest column by David Adler, president of The Alturas Institute
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.
