regent
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well it's basically what the dictator wannabe just said today !!! he blatantly said that any law passed by a congressional majority and is then found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court is setting a new precedent !!! in other words anything the left passes should become absolute !!!
Where in the Constitution does the Court get the power to strike down a law Congress passed?
Precedent was set in Marbury vs Madison. Though Alexander hamilton said in Federalist 78 that the court wouldnt have such power and Jefferson was against the court having such power and felt they had over reached with the Marbury decision.
That being said, its been 200 years since that decision, the courts have exercised that power repeatedly and its stood.
No, its not in the Constitution, but its now an established power.
Perfect answer, suprisingly few seemed to know that, yet it is that, that perhaps makes the Marbury case the most important Supreme Court case to date.