They know the truth, the fisherman from Maine, the waitress from Pennsylvania, the landscaper from Florida, the autoworker from Michigan, the farmer from Illinois, the mechanic from Missouri, the rancher from Montana, the programmer from New Mexico. They know the truth that for half a century the real extremists on the nation’s courts have been Liberal Activist judges.
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have anointed themselves as the nation’s ultimate lawgivers, laughing at Washington’s self-evident notion that a legitimate law can be passed only by an “explicit and authentic act of the whole people.”
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have slyly empowered themselves as a super arm of government, thereby mocking Jefferson, who was a constant critic of an unfettered judiciary with ever growing power: “The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments.”
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have consistently undermined the principle of Federalism to usurp the power of the people in states and municipalities, thereby throwing into the trash can the Constitution’s “We the People” and replacing it with Judicial Activism’s “I the Judge.”
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have perversely “interpreted” the Constitution to discover a plethora of “rights” to be enjoyed by criminals, even the “right” of the most despicable murderer to be placed equally with other citizens on a list of those waiting to receive an organ transplant.
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have never deemed it important to “actively” defend the rights of victims and the rights of society.
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have taught the nation’s youth the morally and pragmatically repugnant idea that the criminal justice system is a game in which truth is absolutely subordinated to procedure, no matter how heinous the crime, how vile the criminal.
They know that for fifty years Liberal Activist judges have consistently held three to five seats on the U. S. Supreme Court (from 33% to 55% of the Court) and even greater numbers on other courts (what better example than the stunningly incongruous number of Liberal Activists on the Florida Supreme Court) even though Liberals account for no more than 17% of the general public. How that fact bears repeating! "Liberals account for no more than 17% of the general public."
They know that Liberal politicians and Liberal interest groups who smear judicial nominees as “extremists” will falsely label a Liberal Activist judge such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who served the ACLU as general counsel and member of its Board) a “Moderate” while most other Democrats will cowardly refuse to discuss just how much the “Centrist” Justice Ginsburg and others like her actually represent the American mainstream.
They know that for fifty years most Democratic politicians have remained silent as theocratic Liberal Activist judges, the high priests of the religion called Liberalism, have forced their will upon an astonished nation through laws they divine as “constitutional rights,” laws that Liberal politicians cannot pass in legislatures and are too cowardly to try to win at the polls.
They know that for far too many of the past fifty years most Republican politicians remained fecklessly silent as the cancer of Liberal Judicial Activism metastasized throughout the Federal courts, state courts, and law schools.
The fisherman from Maine, the waitress from Pennsylvania, the landscaper from Florida, the auto worker from Michigan, the farmer from Illinois, the mechanic from Missouri, the rancher from Montana, the programmer from New Mexico know this and much more.
That fact explains why they now rise to demand a Supreme Court that truly “looks like America.” That fact explains why they now rise to demand an end to the mud slinging stealth exercised by a Liberal minority (with the complicity of other Democrats) which connives to establish an over-representation of Liberal Activists (or even a Liberal Activist hegemony) in the nation’s judiciary.
And that fact explains why after fifty years of being subjected to the machinations of Liberal politicians and the perversity of Liberal Activist judges, the great majority of Americans now rise to demand a return of the nation’s courts to their proper constitutional place, in this crucial fight to preserve our constitutional democracy demanding of themselves an adherence to Emerson’s idea that “nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles,” an idea that means everything to them but little to little politicians who can’t stand democracy when it stands in their way.
Copyright by A.J. DiCintio
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