Letter: Lee puts his party before the Constitution

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 13: Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, attends a markup of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Dirksen Building on September 13, 2018, where Republicans voted to move the committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to September 20. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) If only Sen. Mike Lee and his communications director, Conn Carroll, would heed Carroll’s snarky advice admonishing George Pyle in his Public Forum letter of Dec. 8, “Recognize the principles of the Constitution.”

Carroll is obviously ignorant of his delicious irony when he writes that it is "difficult to escape our short-term prisms … [on] the principles that organize our…