Born in Athens, Ohio, he moved to Central Florida in 1989. JOSHUA RAY EVENER, 20, Vespero Street, Deltona, died Saturday, March 2, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. New Life Cremation and Funeral Chapel, Ormond Beach. brothers, William Burbridge, Thailand, Carl Burbridge, Whigham, Ga. Survivors: son, Lloyd Cook, Orlando sisters, Geraldine Guzzo, Ferne Sammons, both of Port Orange, Charlotte Hagemann, Bend, Ore. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Daytona Beach. Born in Providence, R.I., she moved to Central Florida in 1983. Survivors: sons, Michael, Larry, both of Pennsylvania brothers, Charles, Ormond Beach, Louis, Loch Haven sister, Agnes Pfaff, Loch Haven Haigh-Black Funeral Home, Ormond Beach.ĭIANE DINGMAN, 55, Taylor Avenue, Port Orange, died Saturday, Feb. He was a member of the American Legion, Moose Lodge, Ormond Beach, member and past exalted ruler of the Elks, Sons of Italy and a volunteer fireman, all of Loch Haven. Born in Loch Haven, Pa., he moved to Central Florida in 1986. “TOOT” CARTER, 76, Madeline Avenue, Port Orange, died Thursday, Feb. Jackie Calmes is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.WALTER F. No separation-of-powers concern or precedent prevented Roberts from coming down from his bench to provide some much-needed transparency, humility and responsiveness to a troubled public.īut Roberts instead sent a predictably dismissive reply: “I must respectfully decline your invitation.” The most arrogant act of the term, however, wasn’t a ruling it was Roberts’ dismissive rejection of Durbin’s invitation to testify about court ethics and reforms.
To which the prickly Roberts harrumphed: “It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary.” Their decisions can’t be appealed, legally or politically.Īs Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the liberals’ dissent from Roberts’ college debt opinion: “At the behest of a party that has suffered no injury, the majority decides a contested public policy issue properly belonging to the politically accountable branches and the people they represent.” She called that “a danger to a democratic order.” And what makes the court’s power grabs and lack of ethical accountability all the more objectionable is that the justices, unlike the major players in our other branches of government, are unelected and life-tenured. Ominously, by taking cases on Biden’s college debt program and a web designer’s bid to refuse service to same-sex couples, the court threw open its doors to other plaintiffs of dubious legal standing who happen to share the conservatives’ agenda.Īfter decades of decrying judicial activism, Republicans are celebrating a Supreme Court that has taken activism to a whole new level.
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The legislation would require the court to spell out a code of conduct, create a lower court to review ethics complaints against the justices and tighten federal laws governing their financial disclosures and recusals from cases presenting conflicts of interest.įollowing last year’s landmark rulings overturning precedents on abortion, gun rights and separation of church and state, the conservatives’ latest decisions further undermined federal agencies’ power, gutting wetland protections and reversing college debt relief for millions of Americans. Next Thursday, the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on Supreme Court reforms that have gained support with the justices’ inadvertent help. The justices have dashed off for their summer breaks with their families or perhaps their favorite right-wing billionaires - who knows which, given Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s failures to disclose such junkets? - but the court will remain in the headlines. The public’s opinion of the justices remains at an all-time low, with less than a third of American voters having positive views of the Supreme Court, according to a recent NBC News poll. The worrisome result for our democracy is a court with more power and less legitimacy. gave the back of his hand to calls for reform, claiming against all evidence that the justices can police themselves. All the while, reports of justices’ ethical transgressions mounted, and Chief Justice John G.
The court’s major rulings in the term that just ended continued to defy precedents and expand its power versus the president and Congress. A 6-3 conservative supermajority has really put the “supreme” in “Supreme Court,” and not in a good way.
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