The latest Rasmussen Poll asked Americans about their views on the Supreme Court and how it should interpret the Constitution, and the results aren’t all that encouraging:

As the Supreme Court begins a new term, 44% of Americans would counsel the justices to base their decisions “strictly upon what is written in the Constitution and legal precedents.” A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 38% say the Court’s decisions should be primarily guided by a sense of fairness and justice rather than strict constructionism.

Exactly what “fairness” and “justice” are and who defines them are, of course, left unstated. Which is precisely what’s wrong with a jurisprudence that pretends it can ignore the text of the Constitution and impose whatever values a particular Justice might see fit when interpreting what is supposed to be the governing document of the United States.

H/T: QandO