Charles Pickering Gets the Last Word

City-Journal ^ | June 10, 2007 | Harry Stein

[gpapa]

Mention the name Charles Pickering to anyone but the most committed news junkie, and you’re apt to get a blank look or, at best, one of dim recognition.....snip....But with the publication of A Price Too High, Pickering’s insider account of the nearly four years he spent in limbo as a nominee to the federal bench, as Democrats and their press enablers trashed his record and reputation, we’re reminded of how extraordinarily much is at stake in the ongoing battle for control of the nation’s courts

[Jack Black]

there is no link to this article. Could you please post the link.

[gpapa]

I posted the link but it did not appear in the post. Here is the link again: http://www.city-journal.org/html/ws2007-06-10hs.html

[SuziQ]

From the article: "More dramatically than any confirmation battle in memory, the Pickering case demonstrates that liberals will seemingly say anything—and tarnish even the most sterling character—to keep control of the nation’s courts".

I wouldn't say it was more dramatic than any in memory; Clarence Thomas's nomination hearings come to mind, but the left did seem to pull out all the stops to keep this man off the bench. There are some truly 'damning to the left' quotes in the article, especially that of Nan Aron who says that the judiciary is important to the left because it will do for them what they can't get done in the legislature.

This is why, warts and all, I'd rather have the GOP in charge at the White House, and in Congress, to keep Nan Aron, Ralph Neas, and their ilk, at bay.

[ken5050]

Excellent article....BTW..what’s happened to Neas and PFAW?..Have they gone underground..I dont’ think I’ve heard a mention of them in a long time.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[SuziQ]

Oh, they haven’t gone away. You can be SURE they’ll be putting their considerable financial resources behind the Democrat nominee. They want to get back control of the Supremes.

[kevinm13]

The article is an eye-opener even for the politically informed. The treatment of nominees by President Bush by the miserable Dims like Chuckie Cheese Schmucker, Swimmer Kennedy and Little Dickie Durban needs to be publicized especially before the election in 2008.

If for no other reason, the Dims need to be defeated in 2008. Nominees should be given up and down votes and put the slimy Dims on record for the smear campaigns they have against every person submitted by President Bush. This and the complete compliance by the MSM to smear anybody nominated by President Bush.

[Southack]

I agree.

[California Patriot]

Yes. These people are subhuman.

[California Patriot]

Great article, everyone.

[Aetius]

If the Democrats take the Presidency next year, then yet another chance to finally right the Supreme Court will have lost, and if that happens, then I fear we’ll never get another chance.

If Dem wins, then I’d expect both Stevens and Ginsburg to call it quits within a year or two, thus resulting in two far-left activist judges being replaced by two far-left activist judges. If the Dems were to hold on in 2012, then that would probably allow them to replace Souter, Scalia, and Kennedy. Then the most we’d have to look forward to are years of brilliant dissents from Thomas, Alito, and Roberts in the face of unrelenting judicial activism and usurpation from the other six justices.