[Mr. Silverback]

And what about the 1986 decision that Kennedy and this majority overthrew? In abortion cases, they constantly lectured us, they can't change the law that people have come to rely on.

30 year old baby-killing case=Settled, bedrock law. 17 year old sodomy case=20th century Dred Scott. Sorry, that just don't add up. And where's the line? Is a 20 year old case too old to reconsider? 25? 29? 18?

I do not believe that these sodomy laws do any concrete good at this point in our societal evolution, but if we make consent a trump card in order to get rid of them, we have really, really shafted ourselves.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[gdani]

The Supreme Court has passed another law, this one supplanting the law passed by the people of the state of Texas in its democratic process. But you say the Court doesn't pass laws. Well, as Justice Scalia in his angry dissent said, the Court is supposed to be a court, but it has become a super-legislature overriding the decisions of the people.

How does Scalia square his comments with his joining the decision to overturn Oregon's "assisted suicide" law? Isn't that a state matter that's none of the USSC's business?

And how does he & Colson feel about state laws that allow, for instance, medicinal marijuana? Or a state law that would allow gay marriage?