...[the Supreme Court's] retaining control, through Roe [v. Wade], of what
I believe to be, and many of our citizens recognize to be, a political
issue, continuously distorts the public perception of this Court. We can
now look forward to at least another Term with carts full of mail from the
public, and the streets full of demonstrators, urging us---their unelected
and life-tenured judges who have been awarded those extraordinary,
undemocratic characteristics precisely in order that we might follow the
law despite popular will---to follow the popular will. -- Justice
Antonin Scalia, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
(concurrence)
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