“If the legislature acts to protect the poor and less powerful, its actions must be respected by the judicial branch.”
Here is where liberals brains have a total meltdown.
Not all laws that are “good” and “just” and designed to “protect the poor and less powerful” are therefore Constitutional based upon that criteria.
A liberal cannot get it through their head that not all things worth doing are worth having the government do - and a law could be a “good” law and still assume powers not granted via the Constitution - and are thus unconstitutional and SHOULD be struck down.
No gun stores within a few miles of a school might be (to some) a good law - but it assumes powers not granted by the U.S. Constitution - and it was struck down on THAT basis.
Those who thought the law was not Constitutional didn’t necessarily want there to be gun stores close to schools - they just didn’t want Congress to assume it had the power to regulate it.
I nearly saw a lib’s head explode once over my statement of
“simply being a good idea doesn’t mean that the government legally has the power to do it”