They don’t. But the weakest branch - the judiciary - is flexing until they get slapped down. It’s congresses’ job to slap these mini-tyrants down hard. Unfortunately, too many ‘citizens’ don’t clean house in the primaries and then dump any demo-commie in the general elections. Guess the ‘citizens’ have it too easy.
“But the weakest branch - the judiciary - is flexing until they get slapped down.”
I respectfully disagree. Federal judges are completely outside of the electoral process so they don’t have to worry about how decisions might affect their chances of reelection. Removal of federal judges almost never occurs, so that’s not much of a concern either. The judicial branch can tell the other two branches what they can and cannot do, and they can do so using twisted logic inventing things that were never in the constitution to begin with. You are correct that they are flexing their muscles because they realize they can coordinate with like-minded politicians to slow or completely block a political agenda they don’t like. The old saying that justice delayed is justice denied is even more true in the political arena. These delaying tactics have proven very effective.