CNN: Huckabee joins Clinton and Obama in Describing the U.S. Constitution as a "Living, Breathing Document"

In case you were worried about who the next President might nominate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg or ole John Paul Stevens, you now know what you will get with the Huckster. Huckabee will nominate someone who believes they can legislate from the bench and shape the Constitution into whatever they need to render the results-oriented decision he or she wants!


This is all the more reason for Rudy Giuliani, Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter supporters in South Carolina to support Fred Thompson tomorrow in the GOP Primary. Your camps need a Fred victory to continue to keep your campaigns in the game. Come on board the FDT Express, you just may like what you find.

South Carolina - say good bye to additional U.S. Supreme Court Justice Nominees like Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito if you elect Huckabee. (h/t HotAir for the CNN Clip)




The Constitution is Not a “Living, Breathing Document”
Posted on January 18th, 2008
From the FredFile
By Fred Thompson in Law, Judges

This morning I heard that one of the other candidates commented that the Constitution is a “living, breathing document.”

Frankly, I assumed this came from Senator Clinton or Senator Obama. It is identical to what Al Gore said when he was running for President in 2000, when he said he would look for judges “who understand that our Constitution is a living, breathing document, that it was intended by our founders to be interpreted in the light of the constantly evolving experience of the American people.”

Imagine my surprise when I learned that this statement actually came from my opponent, Governor Huckabee, in an interview with CNN this morning. Now I know Governor Huckabee was talking about amending the Constitution, but I don’t think he understood that he was using code words that support judicial activism.

He does not appear to understand that reliance on the notion that the Constitution is a living, breathing document is precisely the kind of wrong-headed thinking about the Constitution that gave us Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion across our nation, and Lawrence v. Texas, which decriminalized sodomy.

I do not believe the Constitution is a living, breathing document. I am committed to appointing strict constructionist judges to the bench if I am elected President, strict constructionists who believe the Constitution has a fixed meaning that can be applied to cases that come before the courts today. They do NOT believe the Constitution is a “living, breathing document,” whose meaning, constantly changing with the sifting sands of our culture, can be determined and applied by unelected judges.

I fear that this loose language about our Constitution calls into question Governor Huckabee’s appreciation and understanding of the issue of judicial activism and raises questions as to what kind of judges he would appoint were he to become President.

[NOTE: Mike Huckabee’s words today contradict what he says on his website. –Sean]