f you want to understand the difference between the political left and right, just look at how each side has treated the Supreme Court.
For decades, conservatives grumbled about liberal justices on the court and the judicial activism they engineered in rulings such as Roe v. Wade. Justices, conservatives said, are supposed to interpret the law, not make it. They spent years articulating and defending this principle, and educating and supporting judges who thought likewise.
And for decades, conservatives tried to get Republicans elected president in hopes (which were often dashed) that they would restore judicial balance to the court.
That campaign finally paid off when President Donald Trump was able to name three justices in his first term –- one who replaced “centrist” Anthony Kennedy and the other filling the seat vacated by liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The result has been a string of court victories for those who believe the Constitution means what it says, including the lifting of the 50-year plague on the court known as Roe v. Wade, weakening the administrative state, protecting gun rights, ending race-based college admissions, supporting religious liberty, etc.
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