Good article.
Leiter is a desperate power seeker who seeks dictatorial rights without having to stand for election.
The lawyers need to be stepped on.
And a judge is just a lawyer who knows a politician.
Wouldn’t it be too bad if Pres. Trump could end up placing 3 conservative, constitution supporting judges on the Supreme Court?
The exchange between Sen.Ted Cruz and Judge Gorsuch at this afternoon’s hearing was extraordinary. Hope YouTube will have it for those who missed it because it was outstanding.
” It’s a pity the Left doesn’t understand that.”
weak. It’s not a pity, it’s the seed of civil war.
otherwise, enjoyable read
They seem to think they are.
Good comment from the live Twitter feed from Gorsuch hearing:
“What a country. Judge with degrees from Havard and Oxford has to pretend to care what a dolt from SNL thinks about the law. #GorsuchHearing”
That’s exactly what they have become.
When was the last time a constitutional amendment was passed. Why go to all that effort when you only need 5 votes.
A big part of restoring constitutional government is going to be putting some checks on the courts.
Leiter is advocating a dictatorship of “philosopher kings”, a degenerate idea utterly contrary to our founding principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence.
He has no business teaching law. He shouldn’t be a professor of any sort and instead should be working at the carwash.
good points made here.
The liberals look to the courts, especially the Supreme Court, as an ultimate legislature.
Abortion and homosexual marriage are key cases, in which the liberals got the Supreme Court to issue opinions which resulted in their favored outcome.
Rather than go through the legislative process, the liberals took the position that there is a constitutional right to abortion, and a constitutional right to change the definition of marriage to make homosexual activists happy.
If something is considered a constitutional right, then the liberals don’t have to go through the messy legislative process to enact legislation which ties in with their views. They just find a liberal judge to rule the “correct” way, and legislation or legal logic be damned.
There are other issues out there too, in which the courts have ruled and taken out the legislative process. But when you review the history of court cases on abortion and marriage, you can see how the activists laid the groundwork to eventually get a favorable Supreme Court ruling.