The most controversial social issues of our day are legal policies that via the democratic process the voting public and elected legislators rejected, only to be over-ridden by a SCOTUS ruling. Think of issues like obscenity, flag-burning, abortion, homosexual marriage among others. Through the democratic process, laws had been passed to define what a majority (often overwhelmingly) believed to be appropriate behavior in a civilized society. Left-wing activists objected to the will of the majority, and convinced (often after multiple attempts) the SCOTUS to create a "right" of the objectors to rebel against the communities in which they lived.
That is the role of a liberal/progressive court: changing laws against the will of the people. By contrast, a conservative court goes out of its way to affirm the will of the people.
Is this clear? Conservatives Justices are pro-democracy. Liberal Justices are anti-democracy.
In a few weeks we will get a sense of whether the voters generally support Trump's pro-democracy direction or, as the media coverage attempts to portray (and create), want Congress to check him. Following is an interesting article from the Patriot Post.
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Why Is Trump's Approval Up?
Thomas Gallatin
Was it the good economic news of record-low unemployment numbers? Was it the successful renegotiation of NAFTA? Was it the Senate Democrats' hateful smear job of newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh? Was it a combination of all of these? This past Friday, Rasmussen released its latest presidential tracking poll showing that 51% of likely voters now approve of President Donald Trump's job performance, compared to 48% who disapprove. This is Trump's highest approval rating since March 2017.
One reason for Trump's growing approval may have more to do with his uncanny ability to get his political opponents to reveal their true colors. By refusing to play by Washington's conventional politically correct "rules," Trump tweaks the "sensibilities" of the political elites. In so doing he has effectively exposed a growing political cancer of social-Marxism that has almost completely infected today's Democrat party — a party that now has no room for political centrists but rather has become a bastion of the extreme Left.
When Americans witnessed the number of high-profile Democrats who willingly threw out one of our nation's bedrock principles of jurisprudence — the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" — in order to weaponize a "social justice" mob all for the sake of seizing power, many were rightly horrified and left wondering, just who are these Democrats?
It appears now that more Americans are recognizing that despite, or maybe even because of, his obvious character flaws, Trump is actually the best man for this dirty job. Through thick and thin, Trump has demonstrated that he will stand and fight to come through on his promises. Frankly, the fact that his approval rating isn't even higher shows just how far the nation still has to go.
