{"id":1166641,"date":"2021-12-28T19:34:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166641"},"modified":"2021-12-28T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:34:46","slug":"the-hill-columnist-the-constitution-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hill-columnist-the-constitution-isnt-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hill Columnist: The Constitution Isn\u2019t Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-hill-columnist-the-constitution-isnt-working%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166641&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Constitution of the United States is no longer working, according to a columnist in The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed Tuesday, Catholic University politics professor <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/587431-the-constitution-isnt-working?rl=1\">John Kenneth White<\/a> said that the Constitution is failing because the nation\u2019s founding document could not handle increasing partisanship and distrust in American governmental institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Constitution is the sacred text of American government and civic life. But it\u2019s time to face facts: The document, written in 1787, isn\u2019t working. The signs are all around us,\u201d White wrote, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1597\/confidence-institutions.aspx\">recent survey by Gallup<\/a> that found that trust in institutions had declined precipitously over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that those who expressed either a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or \u201cquite a lot\u201d of confidence in the presidency dropped from 48% in 2001 to 38% this year. Confidence in Congress was more than halved, from 26% to just 12%. The Supreme Court also saw a significant decline in confidence, from 50% to 36%.<\/p>\n<p>White first blamed the growing distrust in institutions on \u201ca new breed of legislators who seek recognition and are largely uninterested in passing actual laws,\u201d including Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Madison Cawthorn (R-NC).<\/p>\n<p>White also blamed the distrust on the executive branch as well. \u201cDisappointing presidents have become the norm. George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump failed to bring the country together,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAlthough it is early in the Biden presidency, voter disenchantment is already clear, and the unity he promised in his inaugural address seems as elusive as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White did not spare the judiciary from blame, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, many see the courts not as arbiters of justice but inhabited by what Justice Amy Coney Barrett unsuccessfully tried to refute as \u2018a bunch of partisan hacks,\u2019\u201d White wrote. He went on to argue that \u201cjudicial partisanship has escalated\u201d since <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em> in 2000, with the high court\u2019s demurring of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-sends-texas-abortion-case-to-more-conservative-court-against-wishes-of-abortion-providers\">Texas abortion ban<\/a>&nbsp;as the latest instance of alleged partisanship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Constitution\u2019s failures go much deeper,\u201d White continued, saying that \u201cthe vagaries of congressional legislation have given the president the power to make laws through executive orders.\u201d The result, he says, is a constant back and forth as presidents from opposite parties use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-has-now-signed-52-executive-orders-and-actions-in-first-20-days-in-office\">Executive Orders<\/a> to make policy, only to have those orders reversed by their successors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he adds, Congress is derelict in its duties. Among several issues, he accuses the legislative branch of deferring war-making power to the president, waffling on Congress\u2019 subpoena power on a partisan basis, and using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/manchin-no-commitment-on-filibuster-reform-for-dem-election-bills\">filibuster<\/a> to kill legislation in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>White concludes his argument by railing against alleged the anti-democratic nature of the Senate, electoral college, and conservative-majority Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Electoral College is poised to create more misfires, with popular vote winners not becoming president, as has happened twice already this century,\u201d he writes, and \u201cterritorial expansion has resulted in 16 percent of the U.S. population controlling half the seats in the U.S. Senate\u2026 Meanwhile, the \u2018strict constructionists\u2019 of the Supreme Court resort to determining the original intent of a document written 234 years ago rather than understanding that it was a beginning, not an ending point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t be enough merely to reform the filibuster, add more justices to the Supreme Court, change presidents or surrender presidential powers to Congress. A document written in 1787 is inadequate for the 21st century,\u201d White concludes. \u201cLet\u2019s face facts: The Constitution isn\u2019t working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitution of the United States is no longer working, according to a columnist in The Hill. In an op-ed Tuesday, Catholic University politics professor John Kenneth White said that the Constitution is failing because the nation\u2019s founding document could not handle increasing partisanship and distrust in American governmental institutions. \u201cThe U.S. Constitution is the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1888447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}