That is jaw-dropping. It is an assertion of judicial supremacy over the people’s Representatives in Congress and the Executive. It envisions a Supreme Court standing (or rather enthroned) at the apex of government, empowered to decide all constitutional questions, always and everywhere ‘primary’ in its role.

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If you had “a condemnation of the Supreme Court overturning a key provision of the voting rights act” as a guess to the origin of this quote, you’d be close, but, sadly, wrong.

It’s actually Antonin Scalia, apoplectic that five of his fellow justices found the abhorrent Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

The highlights of Scalia’s DOMA dissent are schadenfreudetastic.