Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Supreme Court recently concluded its term, and, as predicted, Democrats met the decisions they didn't like with howls of outrage. ``We will fight to rein in the outrageous abuses of this brazen Court,'' one Democrat offered temperately. ``We must expand the Court now,'' another cried, before it ``destroy[s] our democracy and our planet.'' Yet another announced that she would be filing impeachment articles against a Supreme Court Justice or Justices, presumably for the high crime of ruling in a way that she didn't like. For years now--since at least the last administration--Democrats have been engaged in a concerted campaign to paint the Supreme Court as illegitimate and extreme. We have heard about ``stolen seats'' and ``MAGA justices'' and other melodramatic statements meant to persuade the American people that the Supreme Court has somehow been hijacked. But what it all boils down to is this: Democrats think that the only legitimate Supreme Court is a Supreme Court that rules in line with Democrats' policy preferences. That is it. That is what all of this boils down to. Democrats can dress things up any way they like with a host of invented reasons for why this Court is illegitimate, but the truth of the matter is, Democrats' real problem with this Court is that a number of the Justices have had the temerity to periodically deliver rulings with which Democrats disagree.…”