Following the demolition of Roe v. Wade and its invented right to abortion, Democrats have raged that the decision killed the Supreme Court’s legitimacy. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) described the 6-3 majority as having “burned” it.

Such statements usefully point to the truth, which lies in the opposite direction. Far from delegitimizing the Supreme Court, the ruling in Dobbs upholding Mississippi’s abortion restrictions re-legitimizes it, rescuing it from decades of jurisprudential impropriety. The Left hates the loss of the abortion rights, certainly, but no more than it detests the broad implication that the court, as currently composed, will restrain itself and the other two branches of the government when they overreach.