Republic of the Cristo wrote:San Lumen wrote:But it would have taken much longer and LGBT people would not have the right to marry or adopt children still. Without the courts abortion might still be illegal in many states too, there might sill be a patchwork of laws on search and seizure. The list could go on and on.
* stares off dreamily * Yeah, that'd be terrible.
Regardless, if the court system is capable of enacting such massive social reform on the whim of a few judges, then it can be used in a negative way as well. Imagine the courts declaring that necrophilia is not encompassed by any existing law in a state and is thus not punishable nor illegal. When laws are subject to the whims and whimsy of individual men they can go in very radical and undesirable directions.
And what rational sane judge is going to rule necrophilia legal?



