Sam Brownback: “It is what I am saying. And it is bad that we are seeing this route taking place. This is going to lead us down a bad…”

“It is what I am saying. And it is bad that we are seeing this route taking place. This is going to lead us down a bad road. We are already started down the road. Now we appoint legislators for life with superpowers, and we are unable to pull them out other than maybe for moral turpitude. You have people who become--in essence, they can almost be dictatorial or tyrannical, and they are appointed for life. That is why so many people are so passionate about what takes place on the bench today, because now you have a superlegislator who does not answer to the public. It starts to get irritating to a lot of people. This is not the way we should be going. We should be backing up and saying these are three coequal branches of government with different jobs--not legislators each, but a legislative and executive and a judicial branch. This is the problem. If we keep going down this trail, and you have to examine political philosophy because judges can write laws or you can discover rights, including rights of privacy in the Constitution, and what other rights can you discover in the Constitution, and it will be important to know the political philosophy. Say we get one or two Supreme Court nominees to come up. Now we have somebody such that we are looking at a superlegislator for life in the highest court of the land who can, with a couple of other people, rewrite this document--not just legislate but rewrite the constitutional document.”