And Lincoln stood up to the Court routinely.
Lincoln is an even better model, because he's a hero to everyone.
If Jefferson had stood up to Marshall in 1803, we wouldn't have this mess.
Hell, we probably wouldn't have been a Civil War, because there would have been no Dred Scott decision by which the Supreme Court could, singlehandedly, overrule 50 years of careful compromise politics on slavery.
And come to think of it, there would not have been racial segregation either after the Civil War, because there would have been so Supreme Court to overrule the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1873 and the three post-Civil War Amendments by allowing segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Oh well.
It didn't happen like that then.
Anyone want to take odds that it will happen now?
I still don't understand why people like you want the state to have the power over life and death. The government can't manage to get my tax return to me, how can they be trusted to kill someone?
I think this ruling might be injurious to states' rights, but how can giving the government less power be bad? The government is corrupt and stupid, and I want to live with as little of it as possible.