Benjamin Wittes

231 days ago - I support same-sex marriage (though not its judicial imposition), Barack Obama does not — at least not publicly. … [But] there are costs to asking courts to so far outflank our political system. … One of these costs is … that slow drip-by-drip accretion of power to courts, that steady undermining of the right of people to govern themselves. In California, the deprivation of that right is exquisitely on display, for the compromise the court upset involved decades of negotiation and movement. …