Commentary: How ‘We the People’ are overturning the Supreme Court
Who interprets the Constitution? For many decades, the answer to this question was almost always the U.S. Supreme Court. But in the past few years, a dramatic shift has started taking place. Increasingly, voters are taking constitutional interpretation into their own hands — and our democracy is better for it.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. and 50 years of precedent in last year’s , the conservative majority voted to send the issue back to the states. In response, Kansas voters made headlines in August by rejecting a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have restricted the right to abortion.
