[Puppage]

and the courts play a critical role in advancing a ‘progressive’ agenda with minimal appeal to voters under the guise of constitutional ‘fairness’

When issues are brought before the SC it is instantly taken out of the hands of We The People.

Why not let The People vote on abortion? WHY? Because the issue was brought before, and ruled by the SC. That's why.

Leaving all of us without a voice.

[kingu]

This is a Republic, not a democracy. We do not vote on issues in this nation, we vote for people to vote on those issues, which I'm sure you're well aware of.

Abortion should be a state issue; the SCOTUS stripped it and took it to a federal level using that oddly unwritten privacy clause. Eventually it might return to a state issue and if your state is a democracy, you'll have the ability to vote on the issue.