ultimately it does come down to the legislature

Ultimately it comes down to the demos

well, as a straight man, I am super happy that I now have the right of gay marriage.

who are shirking their jobs

And what the American people will put up with

Congress doesn't do it's job. What's new?

Government shouldn't be involved in marriage at all, but it's not the responsibility of SCOTUS to decide that.

But they did

neither should religion

It's almost like SCotUS isn't necessarily doing its job properly

No, they decided that rights given to one group of Americans must be given to all groups of Americans.

Equal protection.

Where is marriage listed as a right?

It's a left

Wait, goberment shouldn't tell me who i spend time with? WTH?

insanity!

In whatever law passed by legislature that governs marriage. The law that, IMO shouldn't exist.

btw, what is marriage?

The overwhelming majority of responsibility for shitty laws falls on those who wrote them, not those who interpreted conflicts after the fact.

Also one of the times NSA shit was struck down was because the claimants couldn't prove they specifically were targeted

Sorry anti NSA shit

Marriage is two things: a contract and a social relation

So basically because the claimants couldn't prove they specifically were being surveilled, rampant surveillance could continue

And they couldn't prove that because the documents were classified

that it?

So because the government made private data classified as part of a vast information trolling network, it wasn't possible to challenge the government on a 4th amendment violation

So again, it doesn't really boil down to scotus, it boils down to the public

And whether they are willing to do their duty to uphold the constitution

Would we be better off if SCOTUS was openly partisan and activist? Would you rather have laws written by 9 unelected judges who serve for live?

revolution?

>would it be better if it was even further from what it should be?
Wew

partisan judges are a no no

Yeah, exactly.

>it could be worse
Isn't an argument

Well, it actually is worse, all over the world.

Anything you could think of could potentially be worse

>It could be the UK
is terrifying

If you want SCOTUS to strike down laws that do not violate the constitution or precedent, you're asking for them to be activists.

I thought justices were partisan as a matter of course.

They do violate the constitution

After all, you've got D-appointed judges, and R-appointed judges.