I actually had no idea what that even meant until I looked it up.
Now let me show you the clip….
I see he got a good laugh out of telling that story, but it didn’t really seem to me like the guys who said it were joking.
Also, I actually found the phrase “I’m going out feet first” interesting, I’d never heard that one before and I didn’t know entirely what it meant so I looked it up:
Um, I think most judges would agree that judicial independence is crucial.
Um, you agree. What do you think?
Oh yeah, I mean it’s central. The only real political science innovation in our Constitution—I mean, you know, parliaments have been around for 800 years and, um, obviously executives—is the establishment of an independent judiciary.
Even places you think are similar to ours, like England, the judiciary in England was part of Parliament. I mean, they sat in the House of Lords because Parliament was supreme.
But in our Constitution, judges and the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the President.
And that innovation doesn’t…
Read the full article here