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August 15, 2005

They Must Hate America

That would be the usual suspects:

America's most powerful judges are "unelected, unaccountable and arrogant," Focus on the Family founder James Dobson told the thousands of people who packed a Nashville church for "Justice Sunday II," a rally televised for broadcast to churches across the country.

Unelected? Yes, just like the Constitution says.

Unaccountable? Nope, the Constitution also says they can hold office only so long as they have "good behavior."

Arrogant? I think that's what we call "projection," you goblinesque theocrat wanna-be.

Many of the speeches targeted the Supreme Court's power and what the writers of the Constitution intended the justices' role to be.

"All wisdom does not reside in nine persons in black robes," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told the crowd. "The Constitution is clear on the point that the power to make laws is vested on Congress."

Indeed it is, Rep. DeLay. Indeed it is.

However, the Constitution also says, in Article III, Section 2:

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority....

Pulling some meat from the bone, we find "all cases arising under this Constitution." It seems clear to me that the ability to declare something unconstitutional is well within their given powers.

If you don't like it, amend the constitution - or try to anyway. The founders made it a difficult process for a reason. I like to think that it keeps the inmates from running the asylum.

Dobson... DeLay... and those like them dream of an America that has never existed, of a return to a time that lives only in their stunted imaginations. I can only guess that they look around and hate the America that they see: one that, while our founders might not have envisioned it, they certainly - and intentionally - gave us the map to build.

We owe them our thanks for their wisdom.

We owe Dobson, DeLay, and their Constitution-hating cohorts little but derision, scorn, and mocking laughter.