NEW YORK, May 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Congress has less and less pressure to actually do the hard work necessary to pass legislation that would provide stable, long-term answers, as the country's presidents rely on their limited executive power more and more and the Supreme Court keeps getting dragged into multiple debates, major U.S. news portal Politico reported on Thursday.

"The Supreme Court has recently become the focus of the most contentious political debates in this country, including abortion and religious liberty, precisely because presidents and the courts have been trying to pinch hit for a Congress that is no longer in the business of legislating," said the report.

"The less Congress did, the more political problems fell to the other two branches to solve," said Politico in this Opinion article. "I am going to be working with Congress where I can to accomplish this, but I am also going to act on my own if Congress is deadlocked," former president Barrack Obama was quoted as once quipping.

Today, Congress still uses Supreme Court decisions to score political points, but they no longer use their legislative power to supercede them, according to the report.

"The lesson of the last 50 years is clear: Congress won't act if they don't have to," said the report. "Congress was already inert -- unable or uninterested in tackling the big stuff -- and the only thing keeping America from plunging into the abyss is an executive branch and a judicial branch willing to step up to address our biggest crises." Enditem

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