Cornyn Presses Supreme Court Nominee Over ‘Judicial Policymaking’

Concerns about the Supreme Court’s use of unenumerated rights to “transform society” were voiced by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), on the final day of questioning at the Senate Judicial Hearings in Washington D.C. on March 24. Unenumerated rights are those not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Cornyn, a former trial judge and member of the Texas Supreme Court, used the bulk of his time with the Democratic nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, to underscore U.S. Supreme Court legal philosophies and doctrines that he said bypass state legislators. Embedded in Cornyn’s discourse was the thought that the Supreme Court of the United States was losing credibility with what he called “ordinary folks” wondering, “Who do these people think they are and where does this authority come from?” Cornyn also expressed concerns that average Americans who did not agree with the court’s interpretations of unenumerated rights are “labeled as bigots and accused of …