Sen. Ted Cruz
In case you had not noticed, the far-right is having an extended meltdown over the Roberts-led Supreme Court not being conservative enough. They have yet to latch on to a reason to gut
Romneycare Obamacare like a fish, despite all Republican insistence that they do so, but the court's insistence that same-sex marriage does not, after all, destroy all that is good and holy about America is the straw that broke the social conservative back. And so Sen. Ted Cruz, donning his best McCarthy persona, convened an official hearing on Wednesday to determine just how much of the Constitution was going to need to be changed in order to make sure the court would toe the line not just on
most conservative issues, but on
all conservative issues.
Wednesday’s hearing -- titled “With Prejudice: Supreme Court Activism and Possible Solutions” and convened by the Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, which Cruz chairs -- presented the latest wave of efforts to attack the Supreme Court for straying from the high hopes conservatives had after Bush nominated Samuel Alito to the seat vacated by the more moderate Sandra Day O'Connor.
“When I see what’s happened at the Supreme Court level, it strikes me as a foreign, unhistorical approach to law. It’s just breathtaking, some of the things that have happened,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said during the hearing.
There are a number of proposed ideas. Ted Cruz wants national elections to vote Supreme Court justices out of office if they decide cases in a way the public doesn't like. Others would prefer simple impeachment. But the Republicans are open to whatever changes to the fabric of the Constitution you'd care to name—gaining absolute control of the court is deemed that necessary.
Edward Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, threw out an assortment of ideas, including changes to the constitutional amendment process itself, opportunities to override decisions, more avenues to remove bad judges, and term limits.
So conservatives in the Senate are now engaged in explorations as to how to change America's founding document in order to enforce social conservative morals, in addition to the already-understood rigorous corporatism, regardless of whether America's top courts find those things lawful or not. Ted Cruz would make an awfully fine leader, would he not? He could really bring Republicanism out of its Weimarian doldrums and into a new reich.