[Cold Heat]

The public (through the Constitution) "grants powers." The courts have no authority.

Uhh.........????

I am afraid I do not follow that logic.

As far as I know, the "vote" is where the power resides in the people.

Under the Constitution the Court has the responsibility and the rights to interpret the law. And to make a judgment regarding the law. That authority is their purview.

[Tax-chick]

The people's representatives, in convention, originally distributed the powers of government among the branches by means of the State and Federal Constitutions. *In theory*, each branch has only the powers granted by the Constitution; no branch has the authority to "grant powers" to any other.

As you noted, judges have the Constitutional authority to interpret the law. When they do anything further, they have overstepped their authority.