Constitutional Law
Mar. 14, 2015
9th Circuit cancels rights, yet again
The 9th Circuit's current trend of canceling the protections of the Bill of Rights when ruling majorities find them inconvenient is troubling. By Anthony T. Caso
The Bill of Rights was not an invention of the Founding Generation - a gift from the ruling elite to the polis. As recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court, the liberties memorialized in the Bill of Rights preexisted the Constitution. They are the foundations of free society and a recognition that a government program, no matter how popular, may not intrude on certain basic rights.
Luckily, the founders did not leave us to rely on these n...
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