Impact of the First Obama State of the Union

[TinCow]

Jefferson is different; unlike the vast majority of today's politicians, he actually cared about the constitution. Also, it doesn't say he criticized the judge in his state of the union notes (they didn't give speeches back then. Thanks for nothing Wilson).

You need to read up more on Marbury v. Madison. There has never been any incident in US history that has ever resulted in more venom and bad blood between SCOTUS and POTUS than that case. Jefferson, to his dying day, believed that Marbury would entirely destroy the balance of power in the government and result in a judicial dictatorship. He was pretty vocal about it too.

Right or wrong, SCOTUS is one of three equal branches of our government. They are humans, and they are part of the checks and balances system. SCOTUS can be overruled by Congress and the States via Amendments specifically because SCOTUS is not infallible. To claim that SCOTUS should somehow be immune to criticism by the Executive and Legislative Branches is to accord them a special status which does not exist. I don't see anyone complaining about Obama's criticisms of Congress; the difference being made for SCOTUS is totally nonsensical.

And for the record, I agree with the SCOTUS decision.