If you’re a liberal activist judge who has lost the Washington Post, you might want to consider whether you’ve gone to far. In an editorial published last night, the paper that reminds us daily that “democracy dies in darkness” sheds light on the unconstitutional judicial activism in response to Congress’s defunding of Planned Parenthood, the premier abortion business in America and a darling of the Democratic Party.
The Post editorializes — under the headline, “This is what judicial overreach looks like”:
This White House has aggressively tried to withhold federal money from programs it dislikes. Those efforts have rightly faced scrutiny in the courts because the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse.
Defunding Planned Parenthood won’t end the fight against abortion. And pro-abortion activists really don’t have to make up constitutional penumbras that even the Post can’t get behind.