Politics: July 2018 Archives

https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/07/how-the-left-captured-the-supreme-court/

Roger Kimball writes:

"The distance between saying that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and saying that an interpretation foisted by the Court onto the Constitution is the supreme law is the distance between a government of checks and balances in which the people are sovereign, and a government in which the judiciary is sovereign.

"Shortly before his untimely death, Antonin Scalia pointed out the scandalous reality that the United States was in fact, if not in theory, governed by nine unelected be-robed officials who served for life, all of whom, as the Court is presently populated) went to Harvard, Yale, or Columbia. This situation is exactly what Jefferson meant by 'the despotism of an oligarchy.'"

He quotes "Brutus," an anonymous anti-federalist during the debates over the Constitution:

"There is no power above them, to control any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controlled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself."