- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 4, 2008
Barack Obama is a big believer in judicial activism. If you’re not familiar with the term, it essentially means that if a court disagrees with what is written in law, they issue an opinion declaring whatever they disagree with to either be unconstitutional or to extrapolate a new right or entitlement that was never in the Constitution to begin with, such as:
- Abortion
- Privacy
- Freedom from religion
- Freedom from discrimination
- Expression
- Fairness
I’m not saying that privacy isn’t important and nobody should suffer through discrimination, but they aren’t in the Constitution. If people want something to be “constitutional” then it needs to be put there. There are ways to do that.
Obama not only supports judicial activism, he laments that it doesn’t exist more.
Obama supports the following new “rights” to be put into the constitution in order to make it more “flexible”:
- Food
- Shelter
- Free education through college
- Free healthcare
- Environmental rights
and the list goes on. You may want some or all of these things, but they aren’t in the constitution. That’s what congress is for, not judges.
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