Pelosi obfuscation

Honoring the Constitution & the Court - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Chicago Tribune

 

“Indeed, for all of their professed adherence to the Constitution, it is striking that House Republicans have led repeated efforts to prohibit federal courts — including the Supreme Court — from conducting reviews, including reviewing the constitutionality of a law.”

 

Mrs. Pelosi is being deliberately dense by describing judicial activism as interpreting the constitution. The separation of powers cannot allow any one branch to have absolute power.  Just as the courts have an obligation to disallow laws that violate the constitution, there are procedures to correct the court if it is clear the court is not using the constitution as its yardstick. The courts have been too lenient on the congress, allowing them, for instance, to effectively delegating the lawmaking power.  Congress has made the commerce clause a “get out of jail card” to pass laws that clearly (in my view) violate the constitution delegation of “everything else” to the states. And how can it be constitutional for congress to pass laws, they have had no opportunity to read, much less understand.