Supreme Court fulfills its constitutional duty

The attacks on the Supreme Court for recent decisions appear to miss the point of its job in our constitutional government.

The Supreme Court does not make laws by interpreting things as they “should be” in a vacuum. It judges whether laws adhere to the Constitution.

Several recent rulings involved regulations imposed by executive branch bureaucrats without a law permitting them passed by Congress. This violates the separation of powers; laws should be made by Congress, signed by the president and enforced by the executive branch.

I am aware that the more liberal activists have used the courts, at times, to impose their views on such things as affirmative action, but that is the duty of Congress, not the courts.

By the way, liberals call this the “Trump Court” although most of the justices in the conservative majority were not nominated by the former president The court is divided across the ideological spectrum, and the only consistency of its recent decisions is a deference to the Constitution.

Last task for Newsom

A few years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to get the Department of Motor Vehicles straightened out.

I have recently visited my local DMV office several times.

The DMV is supposed to open at 8 a.m.

But at 8, while the doors

were unlocked, there were hardly any employees around.

As I waited to have my car inspected, I watched employees drift in over the next 45 minutes, including, at 8:30, the person who inspected my car.

The next visit was not much better.

The DMV Get-in-Line service wasn’t turned on until 9

a.m. I got my number and waited. And waited.

I noticed that no one was at the registration desks until after 9:30.

And, of course, by that time, the line out the door was longer than ever.

The DMV keeps pushing its online services, which is fine, except the the process for registration or adding someone to a title is just as arcane as it was 50 years ago and you still have to go in.

Appointments are booked weeks out, so if you need something done, you have to stand in a glacially moving line or, if you know about Get-inLine, wait inside hoping employees show up.

Gov. Newsom, I know you are out of a job in 2027.

But before you leave, can you please fix the DMV?

Victor Gold, Berkeley

Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press Demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday as its decision about presidential immunity is announced.