{"id":16002,"date":"2012-09-29T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16002"},"modified":"2012-09-29T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T22:47:17","slug":"constitutional-vs-judicial-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16002\/constitutional-vs-judicial-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional vs. Judicial Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2012\/09\/28\/the-wages-of-crying-restraint \" target=\"_blank\">Randy Barnett<\/a>, writing for the American Spectator, captures the zeitgeist of the Tea Party movement in a rousing essay about the need going forward for a different kind of mindset when judging conservative judicial nominees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now we will have an election to decide the ultimate fate of Obamacare. But this election should also be about who will be selected to serve on the Supreme Court. Should Republican presidents continue to nominate <em>judicial<\/em> conservatives who are enthralled with the New Dealers\u2019 mantra of judicial restraint? Or should they nominate <em>constitutional<\/em> conservatives who believe that it is not \u201cactivism\u201d for judges to enforce the whole Constitution? All future nominees should be vetted not only for their views on the meaning of the Constitution, but for their willingness to enforce that meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Barnett\u2019s distinction in mind, it\u2019s no wonder that Tea Party-inspired Senators like Marco Rubio (FL), Mike Lee (UT), Rand Paul (KY), Jim DeMint (SC) \u2013 and soon-to-be Senator Ted Cruz (TX) \u2013 all identify themselves as <em>constitutional<\/em> conservatives.\u00a0 Restraint in judging liberalism\u2019s faulty governing assumptions hasn\u2019t gotten conservatives many substantive victories.\u00a0 We need smart, bold nominees eager and able to make the case for the kind of limited government our Founders envisioned; both in the political branches <em>and<\/em> on the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Barnett, writing for the American Spectator, captures the zeitgeist of the Tea Party movement in a rousing essay about the need going forward for a different kind of mindset when judging conservative judicial nominees: Now we will have an election to decide the ultimate fate of Obamacare. But this election should also be about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[928,144,850,35,28,178],"class_list":["post-16002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conservative","tag-constitution","tag-judicial-nominee","tag-obamacare","tag-tea-party","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16006,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002\/revisions\/16006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}