Gingrich and the Courts

In the Washington Post, George Will writes that Newt Gingrich’s “campaign against courts repudiates contemporary conservatism’s core commitment to limited government.”

Will writes, “[Gingrich] says that the Founders considered the judiciary the ‘weakest’ branch. Not exactly. Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the ‘least dangerous’ branch (Federalist 78) because, since it wields neither the sword nor the purse, its power resides solely in persuasive ‘judgment.’”