The Irrational, Misguided Discourse Surrounding Supreme Court Controversies Such as Roe v. Wade.

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The Court, like the U.S. Constitution, was designed to be a limit on the excesses of democracy. Roe denied, not upheld, the rights of citizens to decide democratically………..

It was bizarre to watch liberals accuse the Court of acting undemocratically as they denounced the ability of ‘five unelected aristocrats’ — in the words of Vox’s Ian Millhiser — to decide the question of abortion rights.

Who do they think decided Roe in the first place?

Indeed, Millhiser’s argument here — unelected Supreme Court Justices have no business mucking around in abortion rights — is supremely ironic given that it was unelected judges who issued Roe back in 1973, in the process striking down numerous democratically elected laws.