Opinion by Max Boot: The Supreme Court rulings represent the tyranny of the minority
Conservatives can plausibly argue that liberal justices invented a constitutional right to abortion, but how is that different from what conservative justices have done in inventing an individual right to carry guns that is also nowhere to be found in the Constitution? The Supreme Court did not recognize an individual right to bear arms— 217 years after the Second Amendment was enacted expressly to protect “well-regulated” state militia.
The majority conveniently favors state’s rights on abortion but not on guns. It is obvious that the conservative justices are simply enacting their personal preferences, just as liberal justices do. So, if the Supreme Court is going to be a forum for legislating, shouldn’t it respect the views of two-thirds of the country? But our perverse political system has allowed a militant, right-wing minority to hijack the law. As an Economist correspondent, “5 of the 6 conservative Supreme Court justices were appointed by a Republican Senate majority that won fewer votes than the Democrats” and “3 of the 6 were nominated by a president who also won a minority of the popular vote.
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