Now a lone member of the court has overturned Missouri's new concealed gun measure:
The framers separated the Federal Government into three branches within the Constitution in order to maintain a series of Checks and Balances. In recent times, there has been a drastic increase in the number of laws or voter propisitions which have been reversed by judiciary. At the Federal level, Judges are appointed and not elected and there is no term on their service.
The first judicial override was in 1801 (Marbury v Madison). Some interesting perspective on the design, role and abuse of the judiciary is here:
The court, in ruling this way, sets what is known as a precedent. The power of judicial review is not in the constitution. It is precedent. It is done because it was done before. This is the power of the Court. They set precedent. The lower court must rule based upon the supreme court ruling or they will just be overturned on appeal. The only was to overturn a supreme court decision is by passing an amendment to the Constitution or by having the Court overturn its own precedent with a later case. Something that is sometime done.
