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Originally Posted by detbuch
It is not MY way. I don't own it. I am not a judge. But I don't want a judge to make laws. I like the separation of powers. Having the one who adjudicate the law also be the one who makes the law is a centralization of power. Even more so if the maker and judge of law is appointed by, and an ideological puppet to, a single person, the President. In "originalist" terms, that would be the definition of tyranny--the centralization of legislative, executive, and judicial power.
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"But I don't want a judge to make laws"
Why would any citizen be OK with someone who isn't elected (and therefore not answerable to us) to make laws? That's exactly what Scalia was getting at in his dissent of the gay marriage ruling.