The Campaign and the Court
Mike Huckabee vowed that he “will not acquiesce to any imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch.”
.. Cruz is pressing forward with his plan to provide “the means [of] throwing off judicial tyrants”: a constitutional amendment that would subject Supreme Court justices to a national “retention election” every eight years.
.. Cruz is not just posturing; he is stoking a pervasive and potentially destructive strain of anti-court sentiment within the G.O.P. He is not just attacking particular opinions or judges; he is attacking the judiciary itself as inherently unrepresentative, unaccountable, and in need of restraint. The same mindset can be seen in Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s threat to wipe out funding for the state judiciary if the state Supreme Court defies him and strikes down a law restricting its own authority.