Scalia nails it
Justice Antonin Scalia is one of our most Conservative SCOTUS justices. And with this speech, he shows it. Scalia: Non-Originalists Are 'Idiots'.
From his own words:
"That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break.""But you would have to be an idiot to believe that," Scalia said. "The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things."
Proponents of the living constitution want matters to be decided "not by the people, but by the justices of the Supreme Court."
"They are not looking for legal flexibility, they are looking for rigidity, whether it's the right to abortion or the right to homosexual activity, they want that right to be embedded from coast to coast and to be unchangeable," he said.
We are a nation of Law and declared Freedoms. The Constitution is a declarative document, it says exactly what the Government can do. What is left is left for the States and for the People.
It is not the job of the SCOTUS to decide what is what. It is their job to decide if laws are in line with the Constitution or not. As long as the SCOTUS stays in their purview things will go just fine. It is when they try social engineering that things go wrong.