“A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.”

Dissenting, Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 192 L. Ed. 2d 609 (2015) ; decided June 26, 2015.
2010s

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