Posted on 03/21/2017 8:12:05 AM PDT by HokieMom
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last Wednesday dragged out his feeble effort to block Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Ahead of today's confirmation hearing, he trotted out three people, representing supposed "victims" of Gorsuch's jurisprudence. He hoped to demonstrate that Gorsuch is hostile toward workers and cancer patients, and takes the side of "the powerful" and corporations against the "powerless" little guy.
Never mind that in all three cases, one of which was decided unanimously by a three judge panel that included one of former President Bill Clinton's appointees, Gorsuch scrupulously applied the text of the laws as written by the Congress in which Schumer serves. Schumer just didn't like the outcomes or, to be more precise, he hopes the outcomes might be sufficiently tear-jerking that they can inflict damage on the judge's chances of confirmation. He feels pressure from his party's left wing to make a show of resistance against Gorsuch's nomination, which seems likely to be smooth sailing.
Schumer's disingenuous behavior is typical of his treatment of conservative judicial nominations. Fifteen years ago, under a previous Republican administration, he tried to create a religious litmus test for circuit court nominations, using the thinly coded phrase "deeply held personal beliefs" to justify a years-long filibuster against a number of well-qualified judges who deserved much better. Most of those nominees were confirmed when cooler heads prevailed.
But aside from his personal behavior, Schumer's attempt last week to impose the tyranny of anecdote on the judiciary evinces a hopelessly distorted and corrosive idea of what law is.
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supreme court needs judges like Gorsuch because America has US District judges like Derrick Watson in Hawaii.
Why do Democrats confirm total liberal radicals and republicrats confirm nice middle of the road fair people that turn out to be Souters or Roberts?
Speaking of “leaders” like Schumer, patriots need to support Trump in leading the states to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, that amendment effectively repealing the whole Constitution imo.
The real problem is not leaders like Schumer, though that is also a problem, it is that our educational system is teaching the youth to agree with leaders like Schumer.
Exactly!
I totally agree. Essentially destroys the "balance of power"
Chuck E. Scummer.
It’s very frustrating. We have to listen to these lies, and the media screech, we know they’re lies, but we have to watch and see which politicians stand up and pretend they’re not lies, and how they are going to proceed based on information everyone involved knows is a lie.
"Nor has Schumer shown any serious commitment to little-guy law in his legislative career. In 1999, he proposed an amendment to a bankruptcy bill that was specifically designed to harm peaceful pro-life protestors then facing a hundred-million dollar judgment in a civil lawsuit brought against them by the abortion industry. Schumer's amendment would have prevented them from declaring bankruptcy in order to avoid paying the full amount in a lawsuit clearly aimed at stopping their protected First Amendment activities, because their protests were supposedly harming the industry's bottom line.
Schumer's amendment didn't pass, and the protestors won their case with a unanimous Supreme Court decision. But Schumer showed that he doesn't mind sticking it to any little guy whose political opinions he dislikes."
Sure hope President Trump and his cabinet are going to be able to make a difference here.
Supreme Court needs judges like Gorsuch because America has bullies like Schumer
I’ll agree he’s an animal.
That title needs to be corrected to read:
Editorial: Supreme Court needs judges like Gorsuch because America has leaders like Schumer, Pelosi, Ryan and McConnell
CES is mentioned by whistleblower on PizzaGate.
When are they going to get to the DC politicians? Apparently 1500 arrested so far, little fish.
The USA will be a better world when CES, NP, DF, JM, & LG are taken down for PizzaGate.
I’m not sure there is a fix for this. They have too large of a foothold and strong unions.
As Trump put it, “I thought Chuck Schumer would be an incredible deal maker. He’s not. He’s an obstructionist. And that’s unfortunate for America.”
Schumer is precisely the sort of creature, a lifelong demagogue, so feared by our Framers.
I do wish people would quit referring to congressmen and senators as “leaders”. They are not intended to be nor are they any such thing. They are supposed to be our representatives. There is a very big difference between the two, and our representatives need to come down off their high horses and realize they are NOT our leaders.
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