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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3303)12/31/2016 12:45:35 PM
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Better wording might be "courts have failed to protect the bill of rights", or "courts have allowed for the weakening of the bill of rights".

In one sense it is the court weakening it, if they allow infringements on it, and esp. if they create new legal doctrines and interpretations that weaken it for future cases.

But its normally the legislature or the executive who actually enfringes on rights. A court could do so through a court order that is abusive and constitutionally dubious, but mostly on these types of issues they get to decide whether to allow the infringement of rights by other branches of the government to stand.
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