I find myself alarmed at Judicial Activism, which seems designed to take away majority rule in the United States. People just don’t seem to notice that majority rule is being eroded by things like judicial activism. Here is a letter I wrote to the Poughkeepsie Journal about this subject:
It is now less than 8 months before the next president takes office, and the leftists in the media are still trying to pressure the Republicans to pick a replacement for Justice Scalia. Why? Because having 5 activists on the court would render the next President and Congress, ineffective. Judicial activism is a pox on our legislative process. By using some semantic trick, the justice branch of our government can nullify any law that it does not like via the process of Judicial Review. This activism is most evident in the recent Obergefell decision. In this case, the Supreme Court decided the 14th amendment meant that a California law defining marriage as being between a man and a woman was unconstitutional. The problem is, equal protection does not apply, because gay people were always allowed to get married! What really happened is, activists redefined marriage and then applied the 14th amendment. The justice branch cannot redefine marriage; that is the responsibility of the legislative branch. This activism is dangerous for every American. Maybe you liked the Obergefell decision, but imagine if right wing activists got a majority in the Supreme Court and started nullifying things like the environmental protection act! I am guessing that you wouldn’t like that and would be then calling for an end to judicial activism! It is time that Americans stopped supporting the use of un-democratic actions to get their way. It is time to end activism in the courts!
