Posted on 07/27/2007 4:48:24 PM PDT by zendari
New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”
“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution Society convention in Washington. “The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”
Schumer said there were four lessons to be learned from Alito and Roberts: Confirmation hearings are meaningless, a nominee’s record should be weighed more heavily than rhetoric, “ideology matters” and “take the president at his word.”
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Do checks and balances mean nothing to this man?
"Dangerously out of balance" to Schumer means 5 - 4 decisions not to his liking.
"We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”
Actually, we can't afford not to.
Schumer shows how our republic has sunken to the level where a person like him is taken seriously. He stands for nothing but political power....
.....like all the other tyrants before him.
We will eventually come to the point where the citizens will have to demand a change....just like they did a 230 years ago.
The GOP has never made ideology is an issue. The liberals did with Bork, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts. When will the GOP wake up? The Democrats want different rules when they are in power.
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Everyone here who snottily says they’re going to refuse to vote for anyone but THIER candidate should pay attention to this. Elections have consequences and whoever the Republican candidate is - even if we don’t love him - is better than the Democrat, no matter who the Democrat is.
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Could he know something that the rest of us don’t? Could there be a retirement in the very near future?
Why this statement all of the sudden? I thought Gonzales is on the radar right now.
This is completely absurd. Schumer has gone off the deep end.
Do checks and balances mean nothing to this man?
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In a word,
NO.
Yup. Proven by the fact that the Senate confirmed an unabashed Marxist (Ginsburg) by a 96 to 3 vote.
And that is precisely the problem.
The GOP will wake up for the next Democratic President.
We stuck by 200 years of precedent and gave Bill Clinton reasonable leeway to choose his nominees. He won the election and he gets the reward.
Schumer wants to toss that overboard? It will come around again.
Chucky seems to have forgotten the math of this. If his girlfriend for life, Ruthy Ginsburg leaves the court and “W” makes no more appointments, the Roberts/Alito wing will win every single vote.
Nothing in the constitution says the Supreme court has to be balanced. Twenty years of the Warren court tought us this.
Na... Our political system was made for people like him, and they have been around since the beginning.
Is Stevens so bad off he won’t last until She Who Can Not Be Named?
Schumer is vicious, dishonest partisan scum. It was perfectly clear who Roberts and Alito are - the President nominates people he respects highly and the Senate confirms them. While there have been a couple of notable episodes of hateful leftist hysteria (e.g., the Bork and Thomas nomination hearings), for the most part it has been recognized that a well-qualified nominee should be confirmed and that a Senator’s ideology is not supposed to be reason to oppose a confirmation (else the string of liberals confirmed to the court never should have been allowed). Schumer is just taking another step in the trashing of all traditions of civility in the Senate. Of course, the Republicans frequently bend over too far in the name of civility and false bi-partisanship, while the ‘RATs show no similar scruples at all.
Um.... no.
The so-called democrats are nothing more than Marxist-Stalinists. They should change their name to the Communist Party of The United States, because that’s what these scumbags have become.
As for Schumer, his number one problem in life is the fact that his mouth and his anus are interchangeable parts, and it’s often difficult to distinguish one from the other.
He gets away with murder day in and day out.
The public needs to be free of the serious media monopoly in NY and DC.
To be completely fair, she wasn't an unabashed Marxist compared to other nominees in the minds of the radical left.
As for Breyer, he's probably more 'conservative' than 2 GOP nominees.
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