“Every honest person knows that the laws in this country today, they’re made almost entirely by unelected bureaucrats and courts,” he said. “They’re not made by this body. Why not? Because this body doesn’t want to make law, that’s why not. Because in order to make law, you have to take a vote. In order to vote, you have to be on the record, and to be on the record is to be held accountable, and that’s what this body fears above all else.”
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“This body is terrified of being held accountable for anything on any subject,” Hawley observed. “So can we be so surprised that where the legislature fears to tread, where the Article I body—this body that is charged by the Constitution with legislating—refuses to do its job, courts rush in and bureaucrats too? Are they accountable to the people? No, not at all! Do we have any recourse? Not really. Now what must we do? Now we must wait to see what the super-legislators will say about our rights in future cases.”