Apart from his keynote address to the Democratic National Committee, Mario Cuomo was the sophist who provide cover for Catholic Democrats in elected office to ignore the church and support abortion on demand.
...RUSH: By the way, I'd like to read something here, ladies and gentlemen. Mario the Pious as we just aired on our sound bite from Sunday's Meet the Press with Tim Russert, said, "Everybody takes an oath to support the Constitution, including especially judges. So why not ask them, 'Will you, judge, apply a religious test to the Constitution? Will you start by saying, "I'm not going to support the Constitution if my pope tells me not to?"'"
May I read to you from Article 6 of the Constitution? "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." Right there it is in Article 6 of the Constitution. So if some pack of Senators on the judiciary committee decides to take Mario Cuomo's advice here and start asking Judge Roberts about whether or not he will apply a religious test to the Constitution, whether he'll do what his pope says or do what the Constitution says -- (interruption) Well, they were. Mario was one of their candidates at one point.
In fact, Clinton was thinking of putting him in there to get him out of the way. Remember that, way back in the mid-nineties? They locked heads because, if you go back to the early Clinton governor days with Gennifer Flowers, he's heard on tape telling Gennifer Flowers that Cuomo is like the Mafia and so forth. There was some strain between those two and some thought they had put him on the court just to get rid of him, because once you put him on the court you can't go make public speeches and get in the way...