Votes by the people are routinely overturned by these emperors in black robes after the votes take place.
Republican choices for the court become liberals half the time. Democrat picks are always dependable libs. What a mess.
Thomas Jefferson (1820):
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.”