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Even worse than “major questions,” in last years gun ruling Clarence Thomas’ opinion essentially said that because there were no restrictions on gun ownership when the Constitution was written there shouldn’t be restrictions today. As a result of this ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just gave guns back to a man who has been stalking his girlfriend for years and was involved in five different shooting incidents. Their logic was that because there were no laws protecting women from stalkers or domestic abusers in 1789, such laws cannot be enforced today. Seriously. This is getting nuts."
That's not at all what he said.
The Supreme Court does not and can not speak to what should be. It speaks to what our democratic process has settled on.
We absolutely should stop electing and reelecting congresspeople who make bad choices, who do not write good laws, who do not do what we want them to do.
But it's not for the Supreme Court to overrule the decisions that our elected representatives make.
All too often these days we have lawmakers trying to escape accountability by pointing fingers at the court for the laws they themselves have the power to fix, and they get away with it.
We keep reelecting the people who have failed us, and we really should stop.
