Ocasio-Cortez appeared to reject the principle of judicial review enshrined in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
While radical, her stance repeated the position taken by then-President Barack Obama in 2012, when Obamacare came before the Supreme Court.
Obama complained “that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.”
Later, Obama, a former lecturer in constitutional law, had to clarify that he did accept the principle of judicial review, which has been part of America’s constitutional framework for more than two centuries, and remains a crucial component of the balance of power between the three branches of government.