Biden exposes the truth about progressives and the Constitution
“The Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms
of additional rights or curtailing rights.”
Joe Biden
Article by the Editorial Board of The New York Post
Biden exposes the truth about progressives and the Constitution
President Joe Biden said what most of his party believes
the other day: “The Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms
of additional rights or curtailing rights.” That misconception is why
Supreme Court confirmations have turned so nasty.
No: The whole point of a written Constitution is that it doesn’t
“evolve” except under the arduous procedures for amending it. The
Supreme Court may make new constitutional law in the course of applying
it to new situations, but that’s supposed to be it.
Which is why progressives going back to President Woodrow Wilson have always hated the actual Constitution, as it limits their agenda.
These days, they’re eager to pack the high court with judges who’ll
“read” that agenda into the nation’s fundamental law, which is a lot
easier than convincing the people’s elected
And so they play rank politics with the Supreme Court. They gin up
personal smears against nominees from Clarence Thomas to Brett Kavanaugh
in a bid to keep them off the court. They threaten to delegitimize the
high court itself if it rules the “wrong” way — threats that apparently got Chief Justice John Roberts to save the ObamaCare law.
For all their talk of a “war on democracy,” the left is engaged in a decades-long war on a vital branch of our Republic.
