[Oldeconomybuyer]

So the Judiciary has budget and spending authority?

We are a post-constitutional Republic.

[Jacquerie]

<>We are a post-constitutional Republic.<>

Press reports used to cite the Constitutional logic as to why a judge shot down a law, exec order, or regulation.

Today, they don’t bother. It doesn’t matter. ‘Some damn judge just doesn’t like it’ is enough.

[Hardastarboard]

Some asshole judge in Kansas (in the 90's?) decided that a school district's poor results were discriminatory and due to under funding, so took it over, raised taxes by judicial fiat, told the school district what to do, spent something like a billion dollars of tax payer money, and ultimately MADE THE SITUATION WORSE (real surprise there, huh?).

The specifics escape me, but the generalities above are, in outline true. Talk about extra constitutional - that judge's skeleton should STILL be swinging from a rope. And the public officials who let him get away with it should be, too, for that matter.