Originally Posted by dyna mo

Very much not dumb stupid

This was a 5-4 sc split decision. And according to one sc judge,

Justice Scalia in his dissent:

?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,? Scalia wrote.