Joe Biden (D), Egomania was on Face the Nation on Sunday. In defending his postition that Janice Rogers Brown is acceptable as a circuit court judge but would be unacceptable as Supreme Court nominee, he made this distiction between the two positions:

"Because a circuit court judge is bound by star decisis. They don't get to make new law."

There you have the Dems' perception of the role of the Supreme Court: to make new law. Not to interpret the Constitution, but to legislate from the bench. We always knew this was their position, but until now I had never heard a Democrat say it so blatantly.

The transcript is available here.