[quote=@mdk]
I'd argue that the manner in which it was passed -- via the Supreme Court and not the legislature -- is ultimately detrimental to the state of democracy in the US. I mean.... what exactly does Congress exist for? All meaningful government activity in the millennium, from the war in Afghanistan to the legalization of same-sex marriage (and probably marijuana too, soon) is coming from the executive and judicial branches. Mind you -- this predates a republican majority. [i]Everything[/i] is happening outside the legislature. What, uh...... doesn't that make us an oligarchy?
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To be fair, [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Earliest_beginnings_to_Marshall]this isn't a new phenomena at all[/url]. They decided abortion, interracial marriage, seggregation, and even whether or not they were entitled to overrule state courts. I think, if anything, the fact that the Supreme Court is at the forefront of so many major decisions now is because the legislature has been too divisive to do much more than make political moves at each other.