The problem with the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary isn’t that judges are too liberal or too conservative. It’s that judges have too much power in a democratic republic such as ours, writes Editorial Board member Christopher Jon Sprigman.

As the court moves to intervene in democratic decision-making, the US drifts ever closer to rule-by-judges. That is nothing to celebrate. Such aggressive judicial supremacy has empowered lawyers, disempowered citizens and turned what could be democracy-enhancing political debates into arid and divisive legal wrangling.

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