Hypocrisy by Dissenters to Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality

One of the ironies of today's Supreme Court decision on marriage equality is that all 4 dissenters talked about how important it is that elected officials, on behalf of the people, rather than unelected justices make law. That might have some weight if it weren't for their hypocrisy. 

These are the justices who stopped the counting of votes in the 2000 presidential election, who ruled against the key provision of the Voting Rights Act that had been adopted by large bipartisan majorities in Congress, and who threw out a hundred years of precedent when they ruled that the rich and corporations can contribute all they wish to political campaigns, undermining the political process and overturning law adopted by the same elected officials whom today they said should be the decision-makers. 

These justices (especially Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito) are for deferring to the people and their representatives when they agree with them, but think nothing of ignoring them when it suits their political goals.

It's the same as states' rights. Even the Southern states in 1861 wrote in their declarations of secession that a major reason for seceding was that the Northern states were exercising their states' rights because they were not agreeing with Southern states that slavery was good and should be expanded, and the Northern states used their states' rights to interfere with attempts to recapture runaway slaves. 

People support states' rights and the right of elected officials to make the laws when states and elected officials agree with them. When they don't, they are against states' rights and the right of elected officials rather than justices to make law. That's why the dissents of Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and even Roberts cannot be taken seriously.