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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that as the 'ultimate interpreters' of the constitution, if the USSC ruled that the 13th and 14th amendment no longer applies to black people because (insert lame random reason here) then that would be constitutional?
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What I say doesnt matter....what the Constitution says does matter.
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Article III
Section 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish....
Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
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If the USSC were to make such a ruling as your absurd example, based on an interpretation that those amendments exclude black people, the remedy would be to further amend the Constitution.