Simon Says

Roger L. Simon makes a curious argument. I agree with him that Denny Hastert's attempt to protect his people from searches is based on a flawed legal claim. Simon is insulted when others say "you don't understand the separation of powers"--the Constitution's tricky, but it's not that tricky.

But then Simon notes "...the Constitution is a document written in 1789 when there were slaves in the country and women couldn't vote." He seems to imply even if Hastert's constitutional argument is correct we can still ignore it.

America, in fact, dealt with slavery and women's suffrage not by ignoring the Constitution, but by changing it. Check out the 13th Amendment and the 19th Amendment. If you don't get that, maybe you don't get the separation of powers, either (which actually is pretty tricky).