The people of this country have long had differing opinions on quotas, abortion, pornography and many other controversial issues. That is why we have elections at all levels of government and differing laws from one state or locality to another. But those who think themselves so far above ordinary people that they ought to impose their own opinions on the unwashed masses have supported judges who turn these political questions into constitutional issues without any basis in the constitution.
At the heart of the constitution is a separation of powers, which limits each branch of government and allows other branches of government to stop it from over-stepping its bounds. Without that, we are at the mercy of whoever happens to be the most ruthless in grabbing power. That is why impeachment has to be a remedy.
According to Justice Ginsburg, "casual use of impeachment would disserve not only the federal judiciary but also the constitutional principles that have seen the United States through its worst crises."
Who said anything about "casual" use of impeachment? What federal judge has ever been casually impeached? Even where there were charges of gross judicial corruption by bribery -- the impeachment of federal judge Alcee L. Hastings a decade ago -- the Congress took weeks of lengthy testimony, evidence and argument before removing Judge Hastings from the bench. Other judges have continued to draw their salaries while behind bars for violations of the law because they had not been impeached.
The danger is not in "casual" removal of judges but in casual lying, such as Justice Ginsburg has engaged in, not only in this attempt to distort the issue of impeachment, but also in other instances of distorting the constitution to impose her own personal ideology as "the law of the land." Nor is she the only one.
Nothing is more dangerous than the idea that some public officials are above the law. If they are, then we don't have law -- and we won't have freedom much longer either.