Shrieking lefties hate democracy — their attacks on the Supreme Court prove it

Because the Supreme Courtroom begins a brand new time period that features extremely contentious instances on everythingfrom voting rightsto anti-Asian racism in elite school admissions, count on countless lefty and liberal assaults on the court docket’s very legitimacy just because some choices don’t go their means.  

A primary instance: radical historian Jeff Shesol’s histrionic New York Instances op-ed

Shesol slams President Joe Biden for performing as a cowardly “bystander” within the face of the Supremes’ current blockbuster choices on abortion and gun management, as if it weren’t each president’s obligation to respect the rulings of a judiciary that’s unbiased beneath the US Structure even when he vehemently disagrees. 

The Founders by no means meant the excessive court docket to be beneath the manager’s direct and sole political management. However Shesol as a substitute urges Biden to mimic President Franklin Roosevelt’s full-on political and rhetorical assault on the court docket after it struck down some early New Deal legal guidelines (which have been, in truth, breathtakingly unconstitutional: One among them aimed to provide the prez the ability to micromanage each enterprise in nation).

Notably, the general public and a closely Democratic Congress totally rejected FDR’s transfer to pack the court docket. Sure, the Supremes later let different New Deal legal guidelines take impact — however solely after the president backed off his unconstitutional imaginative and prescient.

Shesol calls the excessive court docket’s rulings on abortion and weapons an “assault on democracy.” But the Dobbs ruling merely permits voters to determine on abortion restrictions. And whereas we criticized the Bruen resolution on weapons, it centered exactly on the safety of constitutional rights the place the court docket is supposed to be “anti-democratic.”

Rich blue-staters having a tantrum doesn't a constitutional disaster make, however Shesol certain is rooting for one. Regardless of that, for many years, the court docket acted to jot down into the regulation exactly the insurance policies that liberals love: abortion, quotas, homosexual marriage. (Although observe that the “conservative” court docket final 12 months upheld homosexual marriage: Generally, what the left favors doesn’t defy the Structure.)

Saying the court docket is illegitimate just because it strikes down actions that Congress clearly hadn’t licensed (as Shesol does over the Supremes’ nixing of far-reaching environmental guidelines) is insanely partisan and profoundly destabilizing of our democracy. That this view has taken root amongst Dem politicians is scary. 

An avalanche of this hysterical extremism is on the best way, make no mistake. So greatest pray that Biden — who appears an growing hostage to the activist wing of his occasion — has sufficient presence of thoughts left to not attempt following in FDR’s footsteps. 

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