James Joyner notes a pair of columns today which argue for the cessation of the ongoing practice of judicial filibusters by the Democrats.
He concludes:
Quite right. Unfortunately, the public has been ill-served by incompetent civics teachers, who misinform students about the nature of checks and balances. The nonsense about the Framers creating three “co-equal” branches and the inclusion of the filibuster as part of the checks and balances mechanism is so ingrained in most people that the actual history of the Constitution seems odd.
Indeed. As my previous post notes: there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the way our system works.
One of the pieces he notes is from today’s USAT and makes several of the points that I just made about the whole “cooling saucer” bit and the incorrect arguments that are circulating about checks and balances.