Ben Shapiro
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And immigration policy helped drive President Trump back to the White House.
And the open borders policy of Joe Biden did great damage to the country.
But when we are talking about Supreme Court decisions, particularly, we have to discuss the role of the Supreme Court, because if the left doesn't get what it wants, it just attacks the court as an institution.
So what is the court supposed to do?
Well, it does not make policy.
It does not make policy.
Good policy or bad policy, it does not decide whether policy is even good or bad.
That's why we elect a Congress and a president.
It's why the Supreme Court is an unelected branch of the government, because its job is to interpret what the law means, to decide what the law says.
That's its whole job.
So it doesn't get to say, we read the law, the law is bad.
Now we're overturning the law and putting a new law in its place.
That's not what the Supreme Court does.
Now, the left wishes that were not the case.
For decades and decades and decades, going back really to the 1930s, the left has decided the Supreme Court ought to act as essentially a super legislature, a group of really smart people who can simply rewrite policy they don't like into good left-wing policy.
In fact, what they want is for the Supreme Court to say that when the president or Congress does left wing things, that's legal.
But when the president or Congress does right wing things, that's illegal.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be a one way ratchet for the left.
But again, that's not the job of the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court did its job yesterday.