Politics must not kill the Constitution
District of Columbia | September 20, 2021
ANALYSIS/OPINION. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in remarks to students at the University of Notre Dame, warned about the toppling of “our institutions” by those who seek short-term gratifications and partisan political whims, very often at the expense of the Constitution — very often because they care little for preserving the Constitution. Today’s vicious politics are killing the Constitution. What started as a slow decades-long project under progressive will and Democrat Party shifts to the left, and accelerated under the Barack Obama administration’s abuses — the turn from law and order and democratic-republic principles and to “I want this and I want this now!” pen-and-cell phone wailings — has now landed squarely in the lap of the Joe Biden White House as a great reset of the Constitution. The Democrats don’t even make any bones about being barely above Marxism now. The battle over health freedom alone proves that…. (Excerpts from the Washington Times)