{"id":12706,"date":"2011-12-22T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2011-12-22T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:57:40","slug":"gingrich-would-attempt-to-break-judges-who-issue-decisions-he-doesnt-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/gingrich-would-attempt-to-break-judges-who-issue-decisions-he-doesnt-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich would attempt to &#8220;break&#8221; judges who issue decisions he doesn&#8217;t like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this guy is running for the <em>Republican<\/em> nomination? Here&#8217;s George Will on Gingrich&#8217;s latest campaign stance:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To teach courts the virtue of modesty, President Gingrich would attempt to abolish some courts and impeach judges whose decisions annoy him &mdash; decisions he says he might ignore while urging Congress to do likewise. He favors compelling judges to appear before Congress to justify decisions \u201cout of sync\u201d with majorities, and he would sic police or marshals on judges who resist congressional coercion. Never mind that judges always explain themselves in written opinions, concurrences and dissents. <\/p>\n<p>Gingrich\u2019s unsurprising descent into sinister radicalism &mdash; intimidation of courts &mdash; is redundant evidence that he is not merely the least conservative candidate, he is thoroughly anti-conservative. He disdains the central conservative virtue, prudence, and exemplifies progressivism\u2019s defining attribute &mdash; impatience with impediments to the political branches\u2019 wielding of untrammeled power. He exalts the will of the majority of the moment, at least as he, tribune of the <em>vox populi<\/em>, interprets it. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this guy is running for the Republican nomination? Here&#8217;s George Will on Gingrich&#8217;s latest campaign stance: To teach courts the virtue of modesty, President Gingrich would attempt to abolish some courts and impeach judges whose decisions annoy him &mdash; decisions he says he might ignore while urging Congress to do likewise. He favors compelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,53,13],"tags":[431,188,517,752],"class_list":["post-12706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-politics","category-usa","tag-conservatism","tag-electionwatch","tag-republican","tag-supremecourt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3iW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12707,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions\/12707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}