It’s the Supreme Court, Stupid!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

In the early days of Bill Clinton’s campaign to oust President George Herbert Walker Bush from the White House in 1992, his campaign strategists concocted a slogan that defined Bush as a failure and set the guardrails for the Democrats’ entire campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

It stuck, and as they say, the rest is history.

Let’s cut to the chase. Donald Trump is changing his position on illegal immigration. I, Tom Tancredo, the man who has championed border controls and immigration enforcement more than any other national figure, say: no big deal. It’s the Supreme Court, stupid!

I do care whether Donald Trump changes his position or “refines” his position, on deportation of millions of illegal aliens. But what I care about most — and what all patriots and constitutionalists should tattoo on their eyelids — is that Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, must make the next Supreme Court appointments.

 

Yes, I know: There is no way to guarantee that Donald Trump will make the same appointments to the Supreme Court that Ted Cruz or Tom Tancredo would make.

 

Republican President Richard Nixon gave us the author of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, and George H.W. Bush gave us David Souter. But what is guaranteed is that Trump’s appointments to federal courts will be 1,000 percent better than Hillary Clinton’s. (Can you spell Associate Justice B-a-r-a-c-k -O-b-a-m-a?)

 

Constitutional conservatives understand that our immigration laws are meaningless if they are not enforced. It will mean nothing if President Trump orders a wall built from Brownsville to San Diego if a lawsuit brought by a dozen leftist groups results in a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down that order as contrary to the Constitution.

 

The same is true for every single important issue you can name, from education choice to refugee admissions, from criminal justice reform to repeal of Obamacare. If Hillary Clinton is allowed to remake the entire Supreme Court for a generation in the image of Justices Ginsberg and Sotomayor, our Constitution is dead and salt poured on the gravesite.

 

What is most important — and most important by a factor of one hundred — is that the Scalia vacancy and every other vacancy that occurs be filled by a judge who respects the Constitution as a restraint on Congress and the President, not a blank slate for creating a socialist utopia of “transformative justice.”

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The Court of last resort.