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Letter: Constitution judged too liberally

By Tom Tangen, Vancouver
Published: February 20, 2016, 6:00am

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia marks another change in our jurisprudence system. Once our country was known as a nation of laws. We are now devolving into a nation of judges. Scalia was one of the few judges who lived up to his job description, which is, finding if a law is constitutional. Not if a law is good, bad, popular, what I like or dislike, but is it constitutional?

With liberals understanding the power a judge has, they have flooded money into judicial campaigns, while the average voter has no idea of the differences between judicial candidates on their ballots.

The Washington State Supreme Court is owned by the Washington Education Association and the State Democratic Party. Isn’t it amazing how every conservative initiative is found to violate our state constitution, while every liberal one is OK? Homosexual marriage and (always) more money for schools are great, but charter schools and anything by Tim Eyman always seem to be unconstitutional.

Liberals say that our Constitution is a “living” document, which means that they can follow what they like, and disregard what they don’t. With Scalia’s passing, our country falls more from the law being honored to its being ignored in favor of liberals’ “social justice.”

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