Wednesday, December 21, 2011

OK, WHERE ARE ALL THE "CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES"???

Newt Gingrich has openly shown his indifference to the Constitution and even the conservative Boston Herald:
Newt out of order
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The fact that federal courts are supposed to be reading and interpreting the law, not “the American people,” is apparently lost on the former House speaker who is so eager to pander to Iowa voters that he would trash the very Constitution he purports to defend.

The idea that little more than a year from now this man would put his hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution for which he seems to have little regard is horrifying.
Even one of Huge Ego Hewitt's buddies came out strongly against Newt and other GOP freakshows:
GOP candidates: Bashing judges, threatening democracy
Americans should flatly reject rhetoric by Republican presidential candidates and remember that an independent judiciary enforcing the Constitution is crucial to our democracy.

December 20, 2011
LA Times

Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the UC Irvine School of Law.

UPDATE:
At least one person from the CATO Institute thinks Newt is wacked (from POLITICO):
Roger Pilon Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute :

As I wrote in the Daily Caller a week ago, Newt Gingrich's attack on the judiciary in chapter nine of his 21st Century Contract with America is a mass of constitutional confusions. It's a direct assault on judicial review and on "judicial supremacy," in particular - the idea that it falls to the courts to say what the law is.

...if this is a serious proposal for governing under our Constitution, it's deeply misguided - and dangerous besides.

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