• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, part of the role of SCOTUS is (ostensibly) to make sure you can’t just majority-vote over peoples’ rights. They haven’t been doing a great job, but imagine if there was no one to rule against ISL being implemented at the state legislature level; bye bye democracy.

    You need some kind of baseline to stop democracy from voting itself out of existence, and in the US that is SCOTUS and the constitution.