Conservatives saying "activist judges" are "overturning the will of the people" is similar to

[LucyParsons]

Creationists saying evolution is about "chance".

In both cases, they are fundamentally misunderstanding a process that they love to demonize and criticize.

In the case of "activist judges" they are missing the key point that we HAVE a judicial branch so that it can REVIEW laws made by legislatures to ensure ouw laws conform with the Constitution. THAT IS THEIR JOB. It's not about "democracy". You cannot pass laws that undermine fellow citizens' civil rights, period. That's why we have the Bill of Rights, dipshits: precisely to PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES.

With creationists, they rail and rail against evolution being about "chance" - which also represents a fundamental (pun intended) misunderstanding; evolution is not about CHANCE. It is about random mutations over millions and millions of years. Some "work", some don't. Those that "work" keep reproducing, and, hence, their descendants are the organisms we see today. It has nothing to do with "blind chance". Strawman.

/rant

Thank you.

[BrklynLib at work]

1. The Constitution of the US

Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;--between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.


In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.


http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleiii.html

[Beregond2]

2. On top of that,

contemporary evolutionary science is moving away from the idea that mutations are random anyway, so they are fighting a battle in a war from the last century.