Posted on 07/06/2005 9:00:58 AM PDT by MikeA
**Exclusive**
Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.
Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President’s nominee was: “It's not about an individual judge… It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.”
The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!
Schumer proudly declared: “We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.”
Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: “Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.”
Schumer later went on to mock the “Gang of 14” judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn’t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.
“A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.”
By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and “Gang of 14” member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.
Developing…
Agree...they just can't help themselves...LOL...nobody has been nominated yet, for crying out loud.
I'm popping corn in anticipation of this meltdown...before anybody is even named! I love Rove dropping hints it'll be Gonzo (it won't), too.
Harriet Miers!
Been slow over at DU, eh?
didn't some Democrats get caught up in the legal system for eavesdropping on calls of Republican congressmen including Newt Gringrich? Isn't this against the law?
It's called being a Putz
(D'Amato got it right)
This is where I think conservatives are wrong to keep abortion a political issue.
I am pro-life, do not get me wrong. Overturning Rowe v Wade will do nothing for the big picture. It may reduce the number of abortions sought in this country, but not significantly.
The abortion issue needs to be dealt with by changing hearts, not laws.
The dems will win almost everytime as long as we let them define any issue in terms of abortion.
For intercepting transmissions using listening devices. When the "listening device" is your own ear and the interception occurred because some dope is talking loudly into his cell phone in a public space, well, I don't think the law would consider that in the same category as intercepting an electronic transmission.
Not if that's how they got the info.
Then how did that sweet old couple intercept Newt's cell phone conversation and tape it?
It also wouldn't make abortion illegal. It would return it to its proper constitutional place. A state issue.
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