Thank goodness this is the minority view on the court:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer argued Tuesday that judges need to apply the Constitution's values with an eye toward the changing times as he talked about the past successes and missteps of the nation's highest court.
Breyer told hundreds of people during an event in downtown Little Rock that a judge's job is to figure out how the Founding Fathers' values apply to modern issues.
"George Washington didn't really have a view about the Internet," he said, drawing laughter from the crowd of about 650 people at the Statehouse Convention Center.
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The 72-year-old Breyer, considered one of the court's more liberal justices, believes that the court should apply the Constitution's values with a pragmatic view toward present circumstances, rather than focusing only on the document's historical meaning.
"George Washington didn't have a view about the Internet." Har-har. He didn't have one about TV, either, or radio, or movies. What he probably did have was a good grasp of the First Amendment, an enduring principle that can provide us with robust free expression no matter how technology evolves. And if we don't want to follow "the document's historical meaning," why in the world should we care about the Founding Fathers' values? If you're just making it up as you go along, why bother with any justification at all?
