VOL. I · NO. 8564WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026
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SCOTUS has issued its decisions. Now Congress has the floor.

Filed 2w ago · Via SCOTUSblog · The Buffoon Desk
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Local Forecast - Elevator
Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

An opinion piece argues that Congress should make it a regular habit to review and, where necessary, legislatively override Supreme Court statutory interpretations, rather than resorting to rhetorical attacks on the court. It cites past examples including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (responding to Employment Division v. Smith), the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (responding to FDA v. Brown & Williamson), and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (responding to Ledbetter v. Goodyear).

The authors note a 2013 study found roughly 30 instances between 1991 and 2012 of Congress superseding Supreme Court rulings by statute, but argue this practice has since slowed considerably, replaced by threats of court-packing and personal attacks on justices. They point to a 2022 congressional response on horse-racing regulation as one of the few recent examples of the older, more constructive pattern.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
Asking Congress to do the tedious work of writing legislation instead of posting about the Supreme Court is a fine idea and, going by the last decade, roughly as realistic as asking it to balance a budget. The op-ed's own evidence, three examples spread across thirty years, makes the case for how rare this discipline has become better than any argument could.
Source: Read the original at SCOTUSblog → Scored: Local Forecast - Elevator · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0
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