In last night’s Republican presidential debate, Newt Gingrich renewed his vow to dissolve courts and take action against judges who make so-called “activist” decisions contrary to his liking. Gingrich said U.S. courts have become “grotesquely dictatorial.”

Newt Gingrich: “I warned them, 'You keep attacking the core base of the American exceptionalism, and you are going to find an uprising against you which will rebalance the judiciary.' We have a balance of three branches. We do not have a judicial dictatorship in this country. And that’s what the Federalist Papers promised us. And I would, just like Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and FDR, I would be prepared to take on the judiciary, if in fact it did not restrict itself in what it was doing.”