““It is,” he wrote, “not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.””
How can a justice let alone the chief justice make such a moronic statement is beyond unbelievable.
If there is any role at all for the supreme court it is exactly to protect what’s in the constitution from mere majority vote or “political choices”. That’s why the founder set up a CONSTITUTIONAL Republic as opposed to a democracy. They wisely understood that there were certain human behaviors (”rights”) that a simple majority should not be allowed to forcefully restrict - among them beliefs, speech, protecting yourself and others as enumerated in the constitution.
By his logic, if congress were to pass a law restricting free speech or the second amendment, he would not find that unconstitutional since it’s a “political choice”?
You nailed it. The Supreme Court is there to protect the Constitution - period.
Too bad they don’t do it.
Wonder if we’ll start having more stories about Robert’s adopted kids showing up now to sway the vote to the dirty rats.
No rights were addressed by Roberts, only corporate privileges. He even said so in his ruling, and warned people to get it straight or they would be wrongly empowering a police state against themselves.
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