More Absurdity: Rick Santorum Proposes Abolishing the Ninth Circuit Court And Sending Liberal Judges to Guam

This morning at a town hall in New Hampshire, Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum shared his disdain for the judicial branch while advancing some creative proposals for ways to rid the country of liberal judges who Santorum, along with many other Republicans, believes infest the Ninth Circuit.

According to the Huffington Post’s Amanda Terkel, Santorum said he knows “for a fact” that the judicial branch is the least important “Because it's Article III. Article I is Congress, Article II is the president and Article III is the courts. If it was the most important, they wouldn't have put it third."

He then unveiled a pocket constitution to back up his claims, which continued on a downward spiral of absurdity. Terkel reports: 

"How many courts are established in the Constitution? One!" he exclaimed. "Who establishes the other courts? The more powerful body. When people say -- they said this about Newt [Gingrich] and they said this about my plan -- that I want to abolish the Ninth Circuit, can the Congress abolish the Ninth Circuit? What the Congress creates, it can uncreate. So yes we can."

Santorum said that if the court were to be abolished, he had "some ideas" about what to do with the judges, a comment that elicited laughter from the audience. He then joked about sending the judges to Guam.

"I want to be responsive and I want to be respectful of the Constitution because there is a provision that judges are appointed for life. Now maybe we can create a court that puts them in Guam or something like that so they can keep their life appointments, and appoint a whole bunch of new judges to different circuits," he said.

"Realistically, we can probably do something that's actually been proposed a lot in the past, which is to take the Ninth Circuit -- which is by far the biggest circuit -- and cut it in two, and take maybe all the judges and stick them in California, and then give all these states who have had to suffer under the reign of terror of California judges and give them their own court so they can actually reflect the values of the Western states," added Santorum.