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@WilhelmIII @BattleDwarfGimli @KennyWhitePowers @Rose @bobbala @feralphilosophernc @jb @lovelymiss @Escoffier @Liquid_Boss @Spingebill @UnCL3 @dictatordave @graf No, I'm quoting Article 3 Section 1 and Section 2 where it says,
>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.
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>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;
And, while lawyers like to reinterpret Marbury v. Madison to suggest that the courts have the "final say", what MvM says is that the People have the final say in that they can challenge any law as being null and void and bring that challenge before the court to argue their case. Once determined by the courts to be unconstitutional, then that law (or at least that section of law) becomes null and void under MvM.
The challenge must be brought by the people, but once that challenge is brought, the court makes the decisions regarding legal interpretation and constitutional compliance.