Michele Bachmann on Fox News Sunday told host Chris Wallace that as president she will stop judges from telling people what the laws are, tying into the very essence of what the Tea Party stands for: Don’t tell me what to do. As any ten year old knows, the job of a judge, especially, say, judges on the Supreme Court, is to interpret and explain laws and pass judgment based on those interpretations. If that weren’t the job of a judge, we could get computers to be judges.
Bachmann is famous for her self-embarrassing 2009 rant attacking Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke, during a Congressional hearing, demanding they show her where in the Constitution it specifically says they were legally able to take the actions they did during the financial crisis that began just as Bush was ending his presidency.
Sunday, Bachmann said that the “people of Iowa are sick and tired of having judges tell them what their laws are. They’re not a super-legislature. They’re judges. And they need to act like judges. As President of the United States I will only appoint judges that will apply the strict construction or the original intent of the Constitution of the United States.”
Bachmann’s understanding of jurisprudence is frightening and disappointing.
As Towleroad notes, Fox’s Wallace asked Bachmann, “Same-sex marriage is legal in Iowa, so does that mean it’s all right?” To which Bachmann had this response:
“No, I don’t believe that it is. Marriage, historically, for all human history has been between a man and a woman. It hasn’t been the same-sex marriage. And remember that in Iowa, it was judges that made the decision, not the legislature, which are the people’s representatives, and certainly not the people. That’s why the people of Iowa threw out three of those Supreme Court judges. That’s something that should give pause to all judges. The people of Iowa are sick and tired of having judges tell them what their laws are. They’re not a super-legislature. They’re judges. And they need to act like judges. As President of the United States I will only appoint judges that will apply the strict construction or the original intent of the Constitution of the United States.”
Bachmann conveniently glosses over the fact that opposite-sex marriage was historically between one man and as many women as he could afford.
Bachmann apparently, based on this statement, then supports same-sex marriage in states, like New York, where the legislature voted to make same-sex marriage legal?
Bachmann also promises, then, to apply litmus tests as President, to vetting Supreme Court justices, something most jurisprudence leaders oppose strongly.
Earlier in the video, you’ll note Bachmann promises she will make English the official language of the United States.
Oy.
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