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You seem to forget that the legislature of Connecticut, as of all states, is elected by the people. So, what would stop those legislators from doing something that stupid? The voters. The idea is that the more local the government, the closer to the wishes of the people the government becomes. Having a federal judiciary deciding what standards a state can set for itself (which violate no specific clause in the Constitution - just some right found in the penumbras) means that citizens of Connecticut are truly ruled by unelected federal justices rather than their own elected legislators.

Exactly!

And for those who like Robert Bork and think he would've made a great justice, that is Bork's opinion of Griswold too.

People who are worried about the spectre of "the government in our bedrooms" should know that the CT law was never enforced.

The only reason that law got into court in the first place is that the plaintiffs overtly violated the law for the very purpose of getting the law reversed by the courts.

I.e., the plaintiffs were NOT some unsuspecting couple trying to buy contraceptives, but Leftists who deliberately set themselves up.

(In fact, the plaintiff "Griswold" was Estelle T. Griswold -- director of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut at the time. There was never any prosecution of any "married couple.")

This was all part of a strategy of the Left to transfer power from state legislatures to an imperial court. And they succeeded.

There are many obsolete laws on the books of many states. They simply are never enforced. If citizens of those states think that obsolete, never-enforced laws need to be abolished, they have a remedy: Vote for legislators who will abolish those laws.

You are so right. What a lot of people on this forum want is a judge that dispenses social justice that they agree with and democracy as long as they are on the side with the 51%.

I want a judge that reads the constitution and if the power is granted to the state, whether it is moral or not sides with the constitution, and doesn't dispense social justice or personal opinion.

I think we have let Congress of the hook and wasted near 40 years trying to shape the court instead of shaping Congress.