Socialist Professor Michael Kazin Admits : Government By Judiciary Isn't Such a Great Idea

Socialist Professor Michael Kazin reports:

In the long run, it is both more principled and more productive to build movements and win elections whose victories the Courts cannot easily overturn. Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has criticized Roe v. Wade for having “stopped the momentum on the side of change.” She supports the forty-five-year-old ruling now, of course. But it would have been better, she argues, if legislatures had enacted reproductive freedom as a matter of women’s rights, rather than legitimating it with the abstract right of privacy. In a nation truly governed by its people and their elected representatives, Ginsburg and her black-robed colleagues would play a far smaller role in our politics than they do now.

The struggles of leftist professors.