>>The outcome is not irrelevant to 99.9% of the country -- for the first time in 40 years we will have a conservative court. Think about it -- Gore won the popular vote, Hillary won the popular vote, and the GOP stole Obama's pick. ...thus the court is not a true reflection of the people or represent the people either. The thinking of "I" "I" "I" "ME ME ME ME" is not the proper way to look at this - the court is for all Americans - not just you.
The SC's role is to interpret Federal law, including the Constitution. But it's Congress- popularly elected Congress- that gets to make the law. And if the specter of partisan SC activism against popular sentiment is real, then voters can elect a Congress who can undo it with the stroke of their pen.
A cynic might declare that the real fear is from those who hoped to stack the SC with their own lifetime activists when HRC was elected, but now must convince popularly elected representatives.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
