The SC is, by design, a little undemocratic. They're a check against the more democratic parts of the government, with the limitation that they basically can on

The SC is, by design, a little undemocratic. They're a check against the more democratic parts of the government, with the limitation that they basically can only make things legal. Since the default is that people are free to do whatever, laws can only restrict people's abilities to do stuff. The Supreme Court gets to shoot down laws, so they can only let us do more stuff.