The best argument for the necessity of constitutional originalists on the Supreme Court is right before our eyes.
You can see it in the news, in our political discourse; you hear the shrieks of it everywhere: It's the hysteria of the American left over the loss of power over the nation's highest court. And now they've finally become quite unhinged.
President Donald Trump's nomination of conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh has pushed them over the edge.
Not all liberals are hysterical. Some are trying to be intellectually honest, in thanking those most responsible for Trump being able to shape the court: Like Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate majority leader from Nevada. And former President Barack Obama, Democrat from Chicago.
It was Reid who blew up the old Senate filibuster rules to help Obama pack the federal courts with liberal judges.
Liberal Bloomberg pundit Albert R. Hunt advised Democrats to "look in the mirror."
"Democrats set the stage for their powerlessness to affect the court choice," Hunt wrote the other day, "and their reaction just deepens their political anguish."
When he was in the White House and his party was in control of Congress, Obama couldn't resist rubbing it in, like some Chicago political boss in a roomful of broken elbows. And he set the stage for all this a few years earlier, in a closed-door White House meeting with Republicans when Democrats had the power.