NEWT

Would-be president Newt Gingrich is a fount of weird ideas. Thus it is no surprise that he is seeking to impose some extra-constitutional discipline on federal judges -- judges he considers to be overly "active."
What does he mean? He means they hand down decisions he doesn't like.
If he had his way, Gingrich would haul them up before Congress to explain their "activist" rulings -- sort of like sending them to the principal's office, I guess.
Well, of course, in our beloved land, sharp and sometimes angry criticism of the courts isn't new. It's as old as the nation. It's a permanent thread in the fabric of our society..
And I expect right now there are millions of boneheads who are cheering Gingrich on. Fortunately, opposing them -- always opposing them, thank God -- are the constitution, two centuries of precedent and an utterly overwhelming majority of sensible, open-minded citizens who think such ideas are cuckoo.

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