(June 26, 2015) -- In a blistering dissent in today's 5-4 Supreme Court opinion holding that the constitution forbids states from denying same sex marriages, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia says he writes "to call attention to this Court's threat to American democracy."
He writes in part:
...[I]t is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today's decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact -- and the furthest extension one can even imagine -- of the Court's claimed power to create "liberties" that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves...
Justice Scalia's words have drawn responses pro and con nationally. This morning, we published the Supreme Court's full majority opinion including all four dissents. Below, we excerpt Justice Scalia's dissent for our readers' consideration and comment.
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