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by ByteJockey 1777 days ago
1803 at least. They made up their own right to strike down laws (Marbury v. Madison).

Admittedly, I'm not sure what a supreme court does if they can't do that, but it's kinda funny that they bootstrapped it themselves.

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in which the supreme court said that the constitution says that the supreme court can say what the constitution says.

and everyone went along with it!