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DetroitLegalBeagle

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2. The same reason they never bothered to seriously attempt to codify Roe v Wade.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 11:56 AM
Mar 28

Congress has been ceding their power to the Executive branch for decades now, and to a lesser extent, the Judicial branch. Every so often we will get good people in Congress who want to actually do their Constitutional duty and make attempts to claw back that power, but far too many are more concerned with reelection and their own pet projects or their donors priorities. Friendly SCOTUS rulings they are content to leave as that without actually codifying it. Unfriendly rulings they will make a lot of noise and wind up doing nothing.

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