re: #37 aagcobb

Because then the district court would be overreaching itself. Its a basic principle of federalism that as long as the State legislature is not violating the Constitution, the courts have to defer to the legislature’s judgment; otherwise the Court is acting as a superlegislature. Thus the court should not substitute its judgment for the legislature’s, except to the minimum extent necessary to comply with the Constitution.

In other words the SCOTUS just prevented what it construed as “judicial activism”.