Letter to the editor: We’re handing off too many problems to ‘the courts’
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The Trib is correct in saying that the state needs an answer “once and for all” on mail-in ballots (“Courts need to decide election question on more than a race-by-race basis,” Nov. 20, TribLive). But we shouldn’t expect the courts to come up with the answer.
Looking at the brief opinion issued by the state Supreme Court on Bob Casey-Dave McCormick , an argument can be made that the high court was sending a message in all caps to the state Legislature. It could be said that the justices are saying “you guys created this overly complicated mail-in mess — now get to work and fix it.”
Over the past 10 years we have become more and more reliant on “the courts” to solve impasses that highly paid legislators can’t or won’t sit down and work out themselves. It’s too easy to just hand these issues off to the courts. Why have a legislative body when the courts are making all the legislative decisions?
John Poister
Sewickley