SCOTUS upheld the Voting Rights Act<\/a>, ensuring that Louisiana could not create race-based districts as the law demands, Khanna claimed that \u201cmoral light\u201d of the court had been \u201cextinguished.\u201d<\/p>\nWhich is just gibberish.<\/p>\n
The left\u2019s case for \u201creform\u201d centers around the specious idea that the court is failing because it doesn\u2019t adhere to their political vision or the vision of the fleeting majority.<\/p>\n
History has shown that one of the first propositions of authoritarians is to destroy any judicial system that upholds the law.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Which is why Democrats want to overturn state constitutions, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to explore judicial reform state by state and at the federal level,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently said, proposing a nationwide takeover of the courts.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything should be on the table as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n
They mean everything: One of the ideas Democrats are throwing around is to have Virginia\u2019s state legislature lower the mandatory retirement age for Virginia\u2019s Supreme Court to 54, the age of the youngest current justice, then replace the entire court with leftists to rubber-stamp one of the most radical gerrymandering schemes in the history of the republic.<\/p>\n
For decades, Democrats have made a mockery of confirmation hearings, smearing originalist justices as sexual predators and radicals to preemptively discredit their decisions.<\/p>\n
For years, progressive activist groups propped up by wealthy activists have been cooking up imaginary scandals about justices and laundering them through faux journalistic operations.<\/p>\n
No leftist has ever offered a scintilla of evidence that any of the \u201cconservative\u201d justices have altered their judicial philosophy or approach for any personal benefit.<\/p>\n
There is no \u201clawlessness.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is an ideological disagreement.<\/p>\n
If Democrats end up packing the Supreme Court, it will devolve into another partisan branch \u2014 with each party adding new justices until the institution is useless.<\/p>\n
As for term limits, Khanna and others are offering credulous lefties more unattainable promises.<\/p>\n
Term limits would immediately be struck down as unconstitutional: Article III bestows lifetime appointments on justices to shield the high court from the vagaries and fleeting pressures of political debate \u2014 and from demagogues like Khanna.<\/p>\n
Not every institution in American life needs to reflect fleeting mainstream opinions (though progressives overestimate their popularity, anyway).<\/p>\n
Moreover, the court\u2019s disposition should be conservative: Something needs to buttress against the recklessness of majoritarianism.<\/p>\n
The Founders were clear on this.<\/p>\n
All this Democratic drama is just a transparent attempt to circumvent the constitutional order.<\/p>\n
And it is unlikely any Democrats care enough about the Constitution to stop it.<\/p>\n
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. X: @davidharsanyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The story plays out the same way virtually every time. Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[144],"tags":[1413,1664,486,13099,485,43105,5873,55,536,22991,1287],"class_list":["post-75848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hakeem-jeffries","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-courts","tag-democrats","tag-gerrymandering","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-judges","tag-justices","tag-opinion","tag-supreme-court","tag-the-constitution","tag-virginia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116595539561674487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}