WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito “duped” the U.S. Senate into confirming them, a top Democratic lawmaker charged on Friday, days after a key Republican questioned if they had lived up to their promises.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, a member of the Judiciary Committee that held hearings on the two, said they staked out moderate positions in congressional testimony but became part of a conservative bloc that issued restrictive rulings on issues from free speech to civil rights.
Schumer, in a speech to the American Constitution Society, talked about the confirmation of Roberts and Alito in 2005 and 2006, respectively. “Were we duped?” he asked. “Were we too easily impressed by the charm of nominee Roberts and the erudition of nominee Alito?” Schumer asked. “Did we mistakenly vote our hopes when our fears were more than justified by the ultraconservative records of these two men?”
So, Chuckles… that means you’re an idiot, right? That you are easily blinded? That you are totally unable to make the big decisions without placing blame for screwing them up on somebody else? Or does it mean that you’re simply jumping on the political opportunity in this case? That you’re playing ‘the victim’? How very Democrat of you.
Yet, what does it say about you, that you have to follow the lead of supposed Republican?
And what does it say about the RINO status of Arlen Specter?
As for your branding those two judges “ultraconservative” by your point of view, anyone to the right of Fidel Castro is “ultraconservative”. Which pretty much tells us where you are, doesn’t it, Chuckles?
July 28th, 2007 at 10:11
Much like Senator Johm McPain’s nebuilous charge of corruption, it is not clear to whoe Senator Chuckie refers to as dupes. It would seem that Chucky’s charge would exclude himself, as he voted opposed both Cheif Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. Schumer might be refering to the RINO’s like Scotish Law Spector and moderate dmeocrats who voted to confirm. It is hard to say.
This much is easy to say, the Senator with a law degree who never passed a bar exam, and likes to pretend to the smarest man in the room, had both Roberts and Alito run rings around him. Schumer took on both justices head on in a frontal attack and got his head handed to him. Maybe Schumer is suggeting his needs to resign for the Judiciary Committee.