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4.19.2005

Need Another Reason to Support the Nuclear Option?

How about the Left's attempt to make this country unrecognizable as a bastion of liberty through abuse of the court system?

The left makes no secret of its intentions where the Constitution is concerned. It wants to change it, in ways that have nothing to do with what the document actually says. It wants the Constitution to enshrine its own policy preferences--thus freeing it from the tiresome necessity of winning elections. And how will the Constitution be changed? Through a constitutional convention, or a vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures? Of course not. The whole problem, from the liberal perspective, is that they can't get democratically elected bodies to enact their agenda. As one of the Yale conference participants said: "We don't have much choice other than to believe deeply in the courts--where else do we turn?" The new, improved Constitution will come about through judicial re-interpretation. It only awaits, perhaps, the election of the next Democratic president.


President Bush's ability to set the direction of the courts through the Constitutional power of judicial appointments matters. The Left gets it. Does Bill Frist?

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