Yesterday the California Supreme court voided 4000 gay marriages performed in San Francisco earlier this year. I'm a supporter of marriage equality (as I've said before here), but this is still good.
Good because this is how the courts are supposed to work. They are supposed to review federal, state, and (in this case) local statutes and rule on their constitutionality and legality. That's what courts do.
If this had gone the other way you would have conservatives howling about "legislating from the bench," but that's not what ever happens. Sometimes judicial review goes your way and sometimes it doesn't and sometimes the courts are correct in their rullings and sometimes they aren't, but judicial review in itself isn't the same as "making up new laws" and it is pure ignorance to say that it is.
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