Please don't lie, factchecking is so easy these days:
https://www.politifact.com/punditfa...-circuit-isnt-most-overturned-court-country-/
Not all laws are enforced, and that has always been true. You shout as if these were something significant.
Taxpayers are footing lots of things I don't particularly like, either, but that is the nature of taxes. Taxes will never please everyone all of the time, and just because one tax is spent on something you don't like, well I got bad news for you, the same is true for everyone else, so welcome to the ubiquitous club. Now then...
Judges do more than just play umpire in a courtroom. Sometimes laws are vague, and there is a dispute over what the law means.
On the latter, all we have are judges to tell us what it says, when that is the case.
IF we don't like it, we take it to a higher court. If we don't like what the higher court says, we take it to the supreme court.
They, and only they, have the right to tell us what it says and/or the constitutionality of something, or allow a lower court's ruling stand if they choose not to take it up.
If not the courts, then who?
See, it's when they rule in ways you do not like, that the righties and guys like you shout " Judiciary is not the legislature". "that judge is being an 'activist' judge". see, and activist just is merely one you don't like. I could say the same about any judge you like and I don't like.
And do judges make law? YES! It's called case law. Not all laws that could be written are written, and rulings are needed on such cases, and they are called "case law". That is a judge made law, so don't give me any bull that the judiciary do not make laws. And Yes, case law can be overruled by legislation, but without it, it's upheld as law, in most instances.