HARSANYI: The left’s attack on courts is meant to destroy the Constitution
Constitutional questions test judicial philosophy as Americans debate the role of unelected judges.
The mainstream coverage still treats left wing pressure on the courts as a passionate disagreement about outcomes, not a sustained attempt to delegitimize any referee that says no. When a ruling goes the “wrong” way, the language shifts from argument to accusation, and suddenly the institution itself is the problem. That framing misses the conservative concern: you cannot preserve democracy by treating constitutional limits as optional.
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The story plays out the same way virtually every time. Democrats, egged on by the increasingly powerful progressive base, push some obviously unconstitutional scheme that they contend is needed to preserve “democracy.” The courts inevitably [...]
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The mainstream coverage still treats left wing pressure on the courts as a passionate disagreement about outcomes, not a sustained attempt to delegitimize any referee that says no. When a ruling goes the “wrong” way, the language shifts from argument to accusation, and suddenly the institution itself is the problem.
That framing misses the conservative concern: you cannot preserve democracy by treating constitutional limits as optional. Packing threats, judge shopping, and campaigns to intimidate the judiciary are not reforms. They are shortcuts around persuasion, dressed up as moral urgency.
A stable republic depends on rule of law, separation of powers, and public trust in institutions that do not bend with every election. If policymakers want new powers, they should win them honestly through legislation and, when necessary, amendment, not by eroding constitutional restraints.
The principle at stake is simple: courts are not there to ratify politics. They are there to keep politics within the lines.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.