To the editor: Descriptions such as “restraint” or “intervention” seem inappropriate when describing our current Supreme Court justices. I prefer the terms “unreasonable” or “reasonable.” (“Same-sex marriage ruling highlights Supreme Court quandary: Restraint or intervention?,” June 29)Unreasonable justices would take four words, without context, from a 900-plus page document and decimate an entire healthcare law that is working for millions. Or they would allow inequality to fester until “the people” fix it, which could be decades or never.
Reasonable justices would read an entire law and glean its intent when determining its constitutionality. They understand that drafting mistakes can be made but refuse to throw the baby out with the bath water.