Change the law in your state. If you can’t do that, it means the majority doesn’t agree with you.
What Fred is saying (I think, I don’t know the guy, just going by what I’ve read and heard) is that we should go back to this dual concept:
1) legislatures make law, not judges
2) state legislatures make most law, not the US congress
It’s amazing that here on a conservative website, populated by people who I agree with most of the time, I have to spend my time explaining what is certainly the most fundamental bedrock concept of American freedom. I feel like I’m explaining basics to the readers of Salon or DU.
The people here should KNOW this stuff. Like the back of their hands.
“It’s amazing that here on a conservative website, populated by people who I agree with most of the time, I have to spend my time explaining what is certainly the most fundamental bedrock concept of American freedom.”
Can California pass a law saying conservative speech is illegal and if you say that, for example, abortion should be illegal you can be arrested? In your rather simplistic view of federalism it can..