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[A Black Falcon]

I just don't like the idea of people placed into a position of inordinately high power, sitting on high, issuing proclamations to us with impunity, and we have absolutely no say over any of it, we can merely hope one of the two elected branches has the balls to stand up to them.

You know that's not true. All you have to do to overturn a Supreme Court case is write a law that changes that law... yes, that can be hard in some cases, but it's hardly impossible. Balance of powers...

The Supreme Court is designed to interpret laws and to balance the rest of the trinity, not make their own as they see fit.

That was true for 10 years... maybe 20, tops (when in the very beginning the Supreme Court was weak). But that changed early and permanantly. And besides, they have to base their decisions on the existing laws... yes their interpretations of the existing law can shape policy, but that's what they're technically doing, not passing new laws.