I believe the issue here is the proper and long overdue actions by the states of forcing a legal battle in the courts... to challenge the judicial branch to exercise some checks and balances over the legislature, which is clearly in the process of marginalizing the constitution out of existence or relevance. Unfortunately, the supreme court itself appears to be just as hell bent on destroying the constitution as well.
Our state governments represent the last line of defense for our individual liberties short of mob-style public revolution.
KEY POINT.
The power of the judicial branch to 'interpret' the Constitution is only the power to judge the other 2 branches of government while remaining within the confines of the Constitution itself.
However true, therefore, it may be, that the judicial department is, in all questions submitted to it by the forms of the Constitution, to decide in the last resort, this resort must necessarily be deemed the last in relation to the authorities of the other departments of the government; not in relation to the rights of the parties to the constitutional compact, from which the judicial, as well as the other departments, hold their delegated trusts. On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.
James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions
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As much as you and I might wish government is a self-correcting mechanism, history says it is not.
That, Sir, depnds on the particular state. Why we allow a man to become less free depending on what state he resides in concerns me.
When I think of the difference between my Sweet Home Alabama and Massachusetts, for example, I shudder at the thought of ever going North again.
Tyranny needs to be fought everywhere, and Liberty promoted as our National Religion.