I started to wonder whether some of the Supreme Court justices skipped their 10th grade government class. Just checked with my teenager who went to public HS.
Yep. Checks & balances is one of the first things they learned about American Government. But maybe they don’t study that in private school?
Problem solved. I just checked Georgetown Prep, the private high school which two of our Supreme Court justices attended (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh). Students there never study civics or government. Here’s Sophomore year, for example. Four years of theology though.
No wonder they don’t understand the concept of balance of power! It would be interesting to explore the high school curriculum of the other justices who attended private high schools. Did they also never study civics?
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There’s been so much criticism of public education —claims that supposedly “woke” curriculums at public high schools are not teaching “founding principles.”
But public schools don’t seem to be the problem here.
No wonder the majority on the court don’t seem to value balance of power. 🤷♀️
Key to this thread:
The majority decision in Trump v. US mentions separation of powers, and protecting a “vigorous” executive. But it ignores balance of power altogether— and unusually for an important Supreme Court case, fails to address the potential costs of their intervention.
