Senator Lee Slams Democratic Colleagues For Brutally Harsh Criticisms Of New Justice

Senator Mike Lee is accusing Senator Ed Markey, Democrat, of being “patently irresponsible” for calling the judicial originalism “racist, sexist, homophobic, and a fancy word for discrimination.”

Lee said on “Fox & Friends,” Of all the irresponsible and inflammatory statements I’ve heard over the last few weeks, and I’ve heard some doozies, this might well be the worst.”

“If you think about what he is really saying there, Sen. Markey has essentially said that our Constitution is racist. And [that] an effort to understand it, understand its words at the time they were written, is itself racist and bigoted,” said Lee. “I can’t think of a statement that has a greater tendency to undermine the foundation of our constitutional republic. I hope, expect, and demand that Sen. Markey retract his statement. It is irresponsible; he can’t defend that.”

Markey criticized Amy Coney Barrett for the judicial philosophy she supports before her confirmation vote on Monday night.

“Originalism is racist. Originalism is sexist. Originalism is homophobic. Originalism is just a fancy word for discrimination,” Markey said in a tweet.

Lee pointed out that if Barrett’s confirmation in “making the heads of Democrats explode everywhere,” it is only because they would rather have the Supreme Court be “institutions of social policy.”

“Look,” said Lee, “for President Trump, this was the SCOTUS trifecta that he managed to pull off. In his first term alone, having put three justices on the U.S. Supreme Court… That doesn’t happen very often and I am glad that it did.”

“They don’t want the courts to be limited to judging institutions,” Lee added. “They want them to be institutions of social change, of social policy, they want them to take debatable matters beyond debate and, so, that is why this isn’t satisfying to them.”

As for Justice Barrett, Lee thinks she “is going to be terrific.”