Opinion | The Supreme Court makes a dangerous ruling, delighting progressives – The Washington Post

Last week, the least dangerous branch (Alexander Hamiltons description of the judiciary) did something dangerous. By ratifying the unprecedented structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Supreme Court incentivized additional slipshod congressional work that will feed the executive branchs sense of entitlement to unaccountable discretion in making laws and policies. The decision, which some progressives will praise as judicial restraint, demonstrates that this anodyne phrase often denotes a dereliction of the judicial duty to compel the other branches to act constitutionally.

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