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“I think it will send a message across the country that the power resides with the people,” Bob Vander Plaats, a Republican who led the campaign after losing the Republican nomination for governor, told a crowd of cheering supporters at an election night party peppered with red signs declaring “No Activist Judges.” “It’s we the people, not we the courts.”

Oh, anti-intellectual populism, you will never get old.  There’s no need to distinguish between different branches of government over which ‘the people’ have varying amounts of control if we can just shut our eyes and blame activist judges!  Because it’s not like judges haven’t been carving out their own understandings of the law, separate from those held either by ‘the people’ or the more democratically elected branches of government, into American jurisprudence since Marbury v. Madison or anything.