Tough to imagine how the U.S. could follow the Irish example given our federal system. Federal legislation would not do the trick without a constitutional basis, flimsy or otherwise. Our problem is that the best solution (if we don't like rule by the "radicals in robes") is painstaking progress, state by state, until all the states come on board.
There is some poignancy to the dissenters' lament that that process has now been shut down.
Unfortunately, as Julie pointed out above, if SCOTUS had kicked the can down the road, it would have ignored "significant harm to a large number of people."
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