I agree, the law does not hold any meaning among those who believe they can change its meaning to in their opinion ‘fit the time’ as they see it.
That is literally and non-ambiguously changing the law from the bench to match your own opinion. Or in the case of the Federal magistrates simply choosing to enforce whatever they want. Thy very name is lawlessness just as thy end is the very definition of tyranny.
If Scalia is replaced with a lawless leftist or ‘conservative’ there will be no room for even hope for the possibility of law in this country. Our only long term option will be a kind of revolution in how we enforce the Constitution.
We would have to return to the old ways of 3 separate but equal branches of Government at the Federal and State level each able to refuses the edicts of the others. Only then would elections matter and the Constitution be enforceable with the consent of the governed.
Short term judges can be ‘retired’ early by radicals but that of course will only lead to Anarchy. As ours becomes like the late roman republic where power is as much a product of the sword as it is the people.(Fate of Democracy and arbitrary rule. The Constitution is already presumed dead with its supposed enforcement and ‘application’ being entirely in the hands of an unelected few.)
Lifetime appointments is the equivalent of kings.
I want term limits in congress and the senate as well