““The result of these trends is that today the courts, unrestrained by higher law and disdainful of majority will, are the dominant force in American politics. As law professor Russell Hittinger writes, in Casey the Court has laid down a "new covenant" by which it agrees to give citizens the right to decide for themselves the meaning of life, to decide what is right and wrong, to do as they please. In exchange for this guarantee, the Court asks only that the people accept the Court's assumption of ultimate power.3S Or as Notre Dame's Gerard Bradley puts it, the Court has said: "We will be your Court, and you will be our people.””
![“We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens…And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of…” quote by Alan Keyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a1f/alan-keyes-7078_america_we-may-well-soon-be-subjected-to-anythin_1202447.jpg)
![“If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the…” quote by Herb Kohl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f8f/herb-kohl-25520_bases_if-confirmed-judge-of-the-supreme-court_2413607.jpg)
