Assertion: supreme court's judge | /r/CapableOf | exercise quasi-legislative power
Facets:
value: given the complexity
type: CAUSE
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Brian Leiter wrote that "Given the complexity of the law and the complexity involved in saying what really happened in a given dispute, all judges, and especially those on the Supreme Court, often have to exercise a quasi-legislative power," and "Supreme Court nominations are controversial because the court is a super-legislature, and because its moral and political judgments are controversial.