Given the history of the Supreme Court, from Dred Scott to Plessy v. Ferguson to FDR threatening court packing to Roe v. Wade, I don’t understand why people continue to delude themselves into believing contentious political issues can be decided by a Supreme Court decision.
We like to believe that the Supreme Court can decide contentious issues because its better than deciding them by armed violence. Throughout American history, when Americans spoil for a fight, they don’t go to the barricades. They go to court. In fact, we are about to see the advent of a Civil War, so far our one and only, because the justice system failed its chance to prevent it. Maybe it couldn’t have prevented it anyway. But it certainly did fail to stop it.