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.
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.