think they can dictate to the rest of us. you heard speaker gingrich reference the 9th circuit court of appeals. that is one of the courts he has suggested abolishing. a left leaning court and as he has done before he believes it is an activist court. a decision that was reversed by the supreme court leader. do you agree that the ninth circuit should be apoll george w. bushed and if is what would then happen if a democratic president came into office and a dem rally controlled. where it needs to end is under the constitution of the united states. that is the real issue are the courts following the constitution or aren t they following the constitution. it isn t just congress that gets it wrong. it is the courts that get it wrong as well. what do you do about it? what we need to do about it is have both the president and
he points out and has done before he believes it s an activist court because in part it was a court that issued a ruling striking down under god in the pledge years ago. decision reversed by the supreme court later. do you agree that the ninth circuit should be abolished? and if so, what would then happen if a democratic president came in office and we had a democratically controlled congress that later took aim at the right-leaning federal courts? where would it end? where it needs to end is under the constitution of the united states. that is the real issue. are the courts following the constitution or aren t they following the constitution? it isn t just congress that gets it wrong. it s the courts that get it wrong as well. megyn: what do you do about it? what we need to do about it is have both the president and the united states congress take their authority back. and i would agree with newt gingrich, that i think that the congress and the president of the united states h
a left-leaning court, and as he points out and has done before he believes it s an activist court because in part it was a court that issued a ruling striking down under god in the pledge years ago. decision reversed by the supreme court later. do you agree that the ninth circuit should be abolished? and if so, what would then happen if a democratic president came in office and we had a democratically controlled congress that later took aim at the right-leaning federal courts? where would it end? where it needs to end is under the constitution of the united states. that is the real issue. are the courts following the constitution or aren t they following the constitution? it isn t just congress that gets it wrong. it s the courts that get it wrong as well. megyn: what do you do about it? what we need to do about it is have both the president and the united states congress take their authority back. and i would agree with newt gingrich, that i think that the congress and the pre
he points out and has done before he believes it s an activist court because in part it was a court that issued a ruling striking down under god in the pledge years ago. decision reversed by the supreme court later. do you agree that the ninth circuit should be abolished? and if so, what would then happen if a democratic president came in office and we had a democratically controlled congress that later took aim at the right-leaning federal courts? where would it end? where it needs to end is under the constitution of the united states. that is the real issue. are the courts following the constitution or aren t they following the constitution? it isn t just congress that gets it wrong. it s the courts that get it wrong as well. megyn: what do you do about it? what we need to do about it is have both the president and the united states congress take their authority back. and i would agree with newt gingrich, that i think that the congress and the president of the united states h
law. a challenge to california s same-sex marriage ban still waits in the wings. we may debate whether this is an activist court. it s certainly an active court. former vice president dick cheney is stopping short of jumping on the gingrich bandwagon but told cnn he s not surprised his former colleague in the house has managed to fight his way to the top. we came to congress together at the same time. 78. and when newt showed up, he said, we can become the majority. we can take back the house of representatives. we hadn t had the house since the 1940s. and initially none of us believed it. but he was persistent and tenacious. he kept it up and kept tup and kept it up and finally by 94, he s the newly elected speaker of the house of representatives with a republican majority. so i wouldn t underestimate him. former pennsylvania congressman bob walker is a gingrich adviser. he served as deputy whip while