Sen. Mike Lee: Lawmakers Have Themselves to Blame for Judicial Overreach

Sen. Mike Lee: Lawmakers Have Themselves to Blame for Judicial Overreach
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 17, 2020. Tom Brenner/Reuters
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The Supreme Court has been politicized in recent decades as it delves into social disputes usually left for other political branches of government, and Congress has themselves to blame, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told The Epoch Times.

“I actually think we’re a significant part of the problem,” Lee said in an interview with “American Thought Leaders” broadcasted on Thursday night. “We’ve been under reaching. ... For decades, we’ve been delegating out our power, we’ve been passive in response to executive and judicial overreach, but even worse, we’ve enabled, we facilitated, we’ve even created, in many instances, that judicial and executive overreach.”