# Bricker is becoming more and more like Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 17, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-becoming-more-and-more-like-trump/816261 "2018-06-17T14:50:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 129
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-becoming-more-and-more-like-trump/816261/129 "2018-06-20T03:57:06Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I see people getting upset about this all the time, but in my experience most of the time it goes something like this > > **OP:** [or post in the thread]: X cannot be legal. > > **Bricker:** Actually, if you look at Y court case, you’ll see that X actually is legal. > > **Other Posters:** Why are you obsessed with legalities when X is morally wrong? Like when **Bricker** defended the Dred Scott decision? > [@SCOTUS just restored us to Yellow Dog contract days!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-just-restored-us-to-yellow-dog-contract-days/814561/102): > > It is the law. I disagree with it. > > Same as if Dred Scott were decided today. It might be law but I would oppose it where I could. I hope you would too. > [@SCOTUS just restored us to Yellow Dog contract days!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scotus-just-restored-us-to-yellow-dog-contract-days/814561/104): > > No, I would not. > > The judicial decision was the result of slavery being legal, and expressly contemplated in the Constitution. The way to reverse the horrible results created by correctly applying the law was for Congress to propose an amendment that eliminated the grounds for the decision: which they did, and which the states ratified in 1868. > > I don’t want judges creating the “right” result when the law is a bad one – I want legislators creating the law. > > … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-becoming-more-and-more-like-trump/816261)._