The problem is much bigger than RINOs.
Associate Justices and US Senators are both drawn from the same class.
The values of that class (the values of most of its members) are incompatible with ordered Liberty and a constitutional republic, since both require self-reliant and self-disciplined citizens.
The managerial elite wants neither.
How many US Senators want to be put on the spot by a reversal of Roe v. Wade?
I venture to guess that it's less than 30.
So it is with all of the "social issues". The class interests and class prejudices of Senators (especially Republicans) are at odds with those of the common people.
This being so, it is very much in the interest of a large bipartisan majority to have these "social issues" referred to a forum which is unreviewable and whose members are not subject to losing their jobs by failure to be reelected.
It will take a President with a very clear Constitutional vision and a large Senate majority to fix this problem.
The electorate votes for these senators. The senators may not be so out of touch with the "comon people" as you believe.
It will take a President with a very clear Constitutional vision and a large Senate majority to fix this problem.
Clearly we need to elect a lot more Constitution-friendly senators. But, clearly we need a lot more Constitution-friendly people in the electorate to do that.
I blame the electorate.
"How many US Senators want to be put on the spot by a reversal of Roe v. Wade?
I venture to guess that it's less than 30."
You venture wrong. An attempt by liberal Senators to affirm support for Roe v Wade failed in the Senate, and at least 45 Senators, all Republicans are solid on pro-life.
"This being so, it is very much in the interest of a large bipartisan majority to have these "social issues" referred to a forum which is unreviewable and whose members are not subject to losing their jobs by failure to be reelected."
It's in the interest of *LIBERALS* that the 'divisive' social issues that separate them from 75% majorities be kept in the courts. Liberal elites are very powerful and cow the irresolute among politicians through media brow-beating.
But the American *people* are against judicial activism.