The questions before the courts are not and should not be whether the judges like the laws at issue, think they are in the public interest, think they would have written them differently had they been legislators, or would like to rewrite them now. That is not their job. They are in essence umpires (no, not vampires). They are not (or in any event should not be) on any team and should merely call the shots as they see them, as impartially as is possible. Believe it or not, many if not most of them try very hard to do...