Rick Santorum: "Judicial Tyranny" Is A Serious Issue In The US

NBC’s “Meet the Press” host David Gregory asked the former Pennsylvania senator how he would respond to a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry:

Gregory: Would you respect that decision by the judiciary?

Santorum: The judiciary has, has, not, not just in this case, but here, here you have the Ninth Circuit saying that a constitutional amendment is unconstitutional. I mean, that’s just on its face almost absurd. The people of the state of California can decide what kind of Constitution they have. There’s a constitutional process and they can, they can create in a, in a Constitution rights so they can create responsibilities. That’s, that’s how the constitutional process works. And what the judges tend to do is say, nope, we’re going to bypass the people and we’re going to decide what new rights and responsibilities are in, in the Constitution.

Gregory: So what would President Santorum do?

Santorum: That’s not the role of the judiciary.

Gregory: Would you respect the decision?

Santorum: I would so the same thing I’d do with Roe vs. Wade, which I would seek to try to overturn it. I think judicial tyranny is a serious issue in this — in this race and in this country, and we need judges who respect the people’s voice. Let the people decide with respect to what the Constitution, you know, what the Constitution says if, in fact, they’re going to go through a constitutional amendment process, which is what they did. The judges should respect that.

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