To those who voted this down simply because of the opinion that judges shouldn't make law, please read up on common law [1]. The US is a mix of common law (jud

To those who voted this down simply because of the opinion that judges shouldn't make law, please read up on common law [1]. The US is a mix of common law (judge made law) and civil law (statute based law) [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States