In recent years, U.S. judges have leaned toward “abstract moralizing” at the expense of their real job, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a crowd at Utah State University this week.
“I’m questioning the sanity of having value-laden decisions being made by unelected judges," he said. "Nothing I learned at Harvard or in my practice of law qualifies me to decide whether there is a right to abortion or to assisted suicide."
The cure, Scalia said, is for "Americans to view the Constitution as a ‘static’ document and hire jurists who confine their role to interpreting it."
Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, called Scalia a "true defender of the Constitution."
"He never wavers from his antipathy toward judges who believe they can rewrite the Constitution to fit their views of how society should be,” he said. “We all owe Scalia our thanks and unending support for his efforts to educate on the proper role of judges in our country.”
— Danielle Hohncke
