It's just a--it's a mode of analysis by the Court that allows the Court to substitute its opinion for the elected representatives of the people.

Congress is not similarly constrained. We can pass broad policies, comprehensive legislation changing policy

Why in the world would you call Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and George W. Bush war criminals in a legal filing?

But when the courts decide to identify an unenumerated right and negate anything that conflicts with it, can't you see how they might just--might feel that this is illegitimate or a sort of policymaking that you--that you have disavowed by…

According to our Constitution, courts hear cases and controversies and decide them, nothing more, nothing less.

I think this is a teachable moment that will remind all of us about the wisdom of the founders who wrote a Constitution that made sure that our rights would be fixed and certain.

So you would--you would agree with me that judges should not be politicians.

Do you share my concern that when the Court takes on the role of identifying an enumerated right... that they will be vilified as unwilling to assent to this new orthodoxy?

one of the most important questions under our constitutional form of government and the separation of powers is who decides

Frankly, on occasion I've been troubled by some of the public advocacy of the American Bar Association on behalf of legal profession that, frankly, did not represent my views.

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