"Go back to the founders. The judiciary was to be the "weak sister" branch with the executive branch holding the sword and the legislative branch holding the purse strings."
We have come very far from this..
"The Constitution . . . meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804.
Jefferson had some very dire and accurate warnings re: the judiciary. Sadly we allowed our legislators to give away the freedom the founders gave to us.