There really should be a crash course in civics and a mandatory exam for anyone who wants to run for public office, particularly a federal office. Understanding the basic things like three branches of federal government and what they do and how they interact seems like kind of a requirement. But not if you're Sen. Ron Johnson, genius. Here he is on WWIB, Front Page with Mark Halverson, back home in Wisconsin, weighing in on the Supreme Court's decision striking down Texas's overreaching abortion laws.
"You know, you're certainly witnessing how powerful the courts, and quite honestly, how powerful the administration is at the expense of legislatures, you know, whether it's Congress or whether it's state legislators. […] So, I don't know the Texas law specifically. I haven't read the Supreme Court decision, but again, the fact that courts continue to overrule, whether it's Congress's intent, or it's the intent of the elected representatives of people in the states, that's something we really need to take seriously."
He doesn't know the Texas law. He hasn't read the decision. But he's going to open his big maw anyway, and say that the courts shouldn't be reviewing the laws passed by state legislatures or Congress to see if they're constitutional. So what exactly is it that he thinks the courts should be doing? And how does the administration's power figure into this at all? Does Ron Johnson know how government works?
Of course, Johson's views on judicial review depend entirely on the situation. Because just a few months ago he told another radio show host that the Consumer Financial Protection Board, which was created by Congress in a law, has "gone so rogue that even the D.C. Circuit is, you know, hopefully going to rein it in big time. My own hope would be they'll rule the entire agency as unconstitutional because it truly is."
Does Ron Johnson have any idea what he's actually saying at any given time?
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