Reid Remarks Intensify Spat With High-Court Conservatives

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 03-10-10 | JESS BRAVIN

[GOP_Lady]

WASHINGTON -- Long-simmering resentment between the conservative Supreme Court and the Democratic Congress and White House approached a boil Wednesday, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized Chief Justice John Roberts and his fellow conservatives for striking down limits on corporate political spending.

"Do you think John Roberts knows or cares how people get elected?" the Nevada Democrat said at a meeting of liberal bloggers. With all nine justices having been drawn from the lower courts, the Supreme Court lacks understanding of the practical impact of its decisions, Mr. Reid said, according to the Web site Huffington Post.

A spokesman for Mr. Reid, Jim Manley, confirmed the remarks and added that the majority leader strongly backed President Barack Obama's push for legislation requiring corporations to disclose their political spending and imposing other regulations.

[GOP_Lady]

[Sir Gawain]

Buh bye Harry traitor.

[ExTexasRedhead]

What an ugly and evil hunk of feces with no soul.

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[TChris]

What an inflammatory feeb.

[lakeman]

“Do you think John Roberts knows or cares how people get elected?”

Harry, I think he understands perfectly.

[dforest]

I think I could live for the day when this sorry assed pipsqueak gets his ass handed to him.

[luvbach1]

Reid loathes free speech...for conservatives. And if I want to give $10,000,000 (which, alas, I don’t have) to a favorite candidate, who is Reid to forbid it?

[keepitreal]

“Do you think John Roberts knows or cares how people get elected?”

That’s not their job to know or care. Their job is to measure laws against the Constitution and uphold the Constitution.

[counterpunch]

0bama and his Democrats are working hard to bias the court against themselves for the next time some of their unconstitutional legislation is up for judicial review.

[kosciusko51]

I think they are trying to intimidate the Court. Either that, or set it up for packing the court. Similar to changing the filibuster rule.

They have no sense of history, no sense of honor, no sense of value or values, just the desire for pure, raw power, and the ability to use it.

May God preserve us!

[ZULU]

Puppet.

Another Obamarionette.

[ErnBatavia]

The aging lesbian will be looking for work at that “Pawn Stars” place by the end of the year...

[Right Wing Assault]

Keep it up, whiners. Public opinion will go against you obamanuts on this one.

The USSC may be wrong on some of its decisions, but it needs to stay out raw, open politics. And (other than the political nature of appointments) politics needs to leave it alone so the justices can make decisions based on law.

I know the nitty-gritty working of the USSC is not perfect, but it is what we have.

[USMA '71]

This is the face that I assigned to the character of Wesley Mouch in Atlas Shrugged both times that I read it.

[counterpunch]

I do t think filthy Harry knows how people get elected, because he’s been doing exactly the opposite for some time now.

[savedbygrace]

"Do you think John Roberts knows or cares how people get elected?"

Do you think Harry Reid knows or cares about the Constitution of the United States?

[PA-RIVER]

People get elected by bribing Acorn and Unions?
Collecting funds on the Internet from foreign people? Forging absentee ballads?
Disqualifying service member votes?
Amnesty of Illegal Aliens?

Buying votes with Health care? - Other peoples money?

[counterpunch]

I don’t think filthy Harry knows how people get elected, because he’s been doing exactly the opposite for some time now.

[reagan_fanatic]

I hope Harry’s thrown out of office so hard he breaks his damn neck.