[lbo-talk] Supreme courts in and out of the U.S.

[Gar Lipow]

Because in the UK you have a system for overriding such rulings by I
believe simple majorities. In our nation the only way to legally override a
supreme court decision is via constitutional amendment which requires
supermajorities in both houses, plus a supermajority of all the states.
(State=UK Province).

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:49 AM, James Leveque <jamespl79 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I've only lived in the UK for a couple years now and I don't really
> know that much about it's court system - but why, in the U.S., is
> every supreme court decision greeted like Moses coming down the
> mountain to read the tablets of law? Or, more to the point, why
> doesn't the UK (or elsewhere) react with the sort of awe over the
> social ritual of supreme court decisions. I assume that the supreme
> courts over here do roughly the same thing (i.e., establish normative
> interpretations of law) but I've never experienced any like the
> reaction you get in the U.S.
>
> Anybody know about these things?
>
> James
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