[Cboldt]

-- When you stand trial and a jury of your peers finds you guilty, they will have credibility. --

See again, prohibition.

-- ... and no one cares...you get the idea. --

Understood.

-- Credibility has nothing to do with it. Government is force. --

Exactly like the Mafia, only with less honor, and less consent of the governed.

[Huck]

Very similar to the Mafia. That’s government.

[Huck]

See again, prohibition.

There's no question the court has gained latitude over time. That's the nature of the government under this Constitution. Each precedent creates the foundation for the next, and so on. None of this is a surprise:

When the courts will have a precedent before them of a court which extended its jurisdiction in opposition to an act of the legislature, is it not to be expected that they will extend theirs, especially when there is nothing in the constitution expressly against it? and they are authorised to construe its meaning, and are not under any controul?

Brutus, 31 January 1788