Posted on 06/26/2015 2:58:55 PM PDT by South40
Justice Antonin Scalia is chastising the Supreme Court’s landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage on Friday as an affront to the principle of democratic rule.
Scalia argues in his opinion that the court is increasingly creating policy rather than serving as a neutral arbiter.
“Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court,” he writes.
“This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”
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Sexist! /s
Exactly.
Well Justice, you are only about sixty years too late.
Ginsberg, in officiating at that gay ‘marriage’ made a snarky and totally inappropriate comment given this case’s then pending status before the Court.
For me, this is the last straw. I don’t think this particular Opinion is worse than Roe v. Wade but, combined with Burwell, it proves how all the Court’s decisions are political and have little to nothing to do with the law or Constitution.
See you there, Jan—need some aviator goggles, eh?
Hate to see him go, but he may as well retire and enjoy life for a while because the Left owns the SCOTUS and, by proxy, us now.
we are supposed to have checks and balances. Well the only check these life time judges get is if Congress impeaches them and when did Congress ever do that? How can they do that when the other party is working with these judges to push their agenda.
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