Chuck Schumer Says He’ll Veto the Next Alito
Well, all the nightmares predicted and warned about before the elections are coming true. Cut and run in Iraq, creating rights for terrorists, Congress doors opened to groups like CAIR, intensified push to kill the NSA program, and now any hope for a Constitutionalist majority on the Supreme Court dashed. Schumer talks about judges like Alito, but if it comes to the point that Bush has an opportunity to select another SCOTUS judge he may not even get a Harriet Myers by.
More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President’s tax cuts, Chuck Schumer says that the single greatest failure of the Democrats as an opposition party was allowing Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court.
“Judges are the most important,” said Mr. Schumer, who orchestrated the implausible Democratic takeover of the Senate last week. “One more justice would have made it a 5-4 conservative, hard-right majority for a long time. That won’t happen.”
From now on, all the President’s judicial appointments will need to meet the requirements of Mr. Schumer, the Park Slope power broker who has happily accepted the mantle of chief architect for the Democrats’ effort to build a majority for the 2008 elections and beyond.
I doubt anyone to the right of Nadine Strossen would meet Mr. Schumer’s requirements!
America voted for this “new direction.” I hope all those that stayed at home or did a protest vote are happy. With the Republican picks lately I am hoping the SCOTUS stays the same for the next two years. Maybe we can turn this ship around by then and at least hold out a little hope of saving our judicial branch from the “foreign law” lovers.
