Melvin Watt: “I am beginning to wonder what happens when the Republicans' 1995 political contract comes into conflict with the…”

“I am beginning to wonder what happens when the Republicans' 1995 political contract comes into conflict with the people's 1791 contract with the American people, the Constitution. I thought the conservative approach was to uphold the people's contract under all circumstances. What I have found recently is that the Republicans are not willing to be conservative in their approach. They talk about being conservative but when it comes time to be conservative, they throw the most conservative document in the world out the window. When the Constitution conflicts with their beliefs, they are willing to either violate it or amend it, because they think they are smarter than the Founding Fathers of this country were. The 1791 contract leaves no equivocation. It says the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and so on shall not be violated. It does not say if we find some objectively reasonable standard, we will violate it. It says 'shall not be violated.' 'No warrant should issue but upon probable cause.' It does not say probable cause if there is some objective belief that there was probable cause. It says 'probable cause.' Yet here we are trying to undermine that document.”