‘Now Let Him Enforce It’ – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

There’s a famous quote on the subject of judicial power — that is, real judicial power, and not just the imagined kind that we’ve grown accustomed to accepting in a legalistic society. It comes courtesy — though we’re told it’s an apocryphal quotation — of Andrew Jackson, our 7th president.… And so, the quote goes, and whether apocryphal or not it almost surely conveys Jackson’s sentiments, “Justice Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” Meaning that without the assent of the executive branch to execute the decisions handed down by the judicial branch, the latter has no power.

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