Justice Scalia: The Supreme Court Is Now A Threat To American Freedom The Supreme Court caused both celebration and outrage when they announce their 5-4 decision on Friday to make same-sex marriage a constitutional right in 50 states. Now Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has come forward to claim that the decision is a dangerous threat to democracy. I write separately to call attention to this Courts threat to American democracy, he wrote, just one day after he dissented a decision to uphold Obamacare. Todays decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in factand the furthest extension one can even imagineof the Courts claimed power to create liberties that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention, Scalia continued. This practice of constitutional revision (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves. What do you think of the courts decision? Is it a violation of our rights? 