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Schumer: No More Bush Judges to Be Confirmed

Warning: Partisan Rant Follows:

I have suspected for a long time that NY Sen. Charles Schumer is really the one in charge in the Senate.

To me he’s an obnoxious partisan to the point of nothing I have ever seen recently.

Today he is quoted as saying the following:

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.”

Senators were too quick to accept the nominees’ word that they would respect legal precedents, and “too easily impressed with the charm of Roberts and the erudition of Alito,” Schumer said.

“There is no doubt that we were hoodwinked,” said Schumer, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

A White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, said Schumer’s comments show “a tremendous disrespect for the Constitution” by suggesting that the Senate not confirm nominees.

“This is the kind of blind obstruction that people have come to expect from Sen. Schumer,” Perino said. “He has an alarming habit of attacking people whose character and position make them unwilling or unable to respond. That is the sign of a bully. If the past is any indication, I would bet that we would see a Democratic senatorial fundraising appeal in the next few days.”

It’s all about the party’s agenda and to heck with the constitution, isn’t it, Senator Schumer?

We want justices who will go to foreign countries’ law to decide law in this country rather than rely on the document that has kept us strong all these years, don’t we, Senator Schumer?

We want justices who will make law out of whole-cloth and proclaim it constitutional, don’t we Senator Schumer?

We want justices who will say the right to privacy is a constitutional guarantee someone can abort a baby for any or no reason, don’t we, Senator Schumer?

And last but not least, we want candidates for Supreme Court justices to testify as Ruth Bader Ginsburg did to the Senate, stating how she would rule in hypothetical cases, don’t we, Senator Schumer? In those days someone declared well-qualified by the ABA was all it took to be confirmed.

And I want to see you knocked down from your pedestal upon which you put yourself, Senator Schumer. I hope to live long enough to see that day. Yours is the face of the problems we are having in government right now, Sir, and you’re proud of it.

Written by ~J~

6 Responses to “Schumer: No More Bush Judges to Be Confirmed”

  1. Sue Says:

    July 28th, 2007 at 12:30 am
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    This is the most ridiculous thing I have heard to date. But it saddens me also.

    If this is the path the Democrats, following Chuck Schumer, choose to take, I see no end in sight as to when all the foolishness comes to a halt.

    Will our country only function properly if one party or the other controls both the Legislative and Executive branches?

    I am about ready to quit following politics altogether and read poetry..at least there is some peace in that. :(

  2. Ed Darrell Says:

    July 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
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    That’s what the Republicans did to Jimmy Carter for his last two years. It’s what they did to Clinton for six years. And Schumer is just talking about the Supreme Court, not all the courts. Paybacks are hell, no?

  3. ~J~ Says:

    July 28th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
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    Check the record, Ed, and I think you will find more judges got approved under Clinton than under Bush. That’s counting all federal judges.

    Thank you for your comment.

  4. Ed Darrell Says:

    July 28th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
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    I’ve checked the record. More judges under Bush than Clinton.

  5. Ed Darrell Says:

    July 28th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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    I’ve checked the record. More judges under Bush than Clinton. Plus, a higher percentage of judges have been approved with the Democrats in control of Congress. Compared to the Republican Senate, this one has been a real pussy cat on judicial nominations.

  6. ~J~ Says:

    July 29th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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    Ed,

    I’m going to give you two links and quotes from each. The first is from U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee: (partisan, yes)

    Reagan, Clinton, and a Republican Senate. During the two terms of President Clinton’s presidency, the Senate confirmed 377 judges, which is just five short of the record set during President Reagan’s two terms. (Senator Hatch says that even more judges would have been confirmed last year “had it not been for Democratic holds on President Clinton’s nominees” who had been reported by the Judiciary Committee.) It is illuminating to compare the Reagan and Clinton terms because both presidents faced Republican-controlled Senates for six of their eight years: The Republican president had 382 judges confirmed; the Democratic president had 377 judges confirmed.

    Senate Precedents. Of the 377 judges confirmed during the Clinton years, nearly 60 percent were from states that had at least one Republican Senator. When President Clinton left office, 41 nominees were left unconfirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. When the first President Bush left office, 53 nominees were left unconfirmed by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

    The second is from the United States Senate Judiciary Committee:

    STATUS OF JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS Confirmed List of Judical Nominees and Confirmation Dates

    US District (Article III) Court Judge 225
    US Circuit Court Judge 54
    US Supreme Court Justice 2
    US Court of International Trade Judge 2
    Total 283

    Comparing apples to apples Clinton had 377 nominees confirmed while GWB has had 283 confirmed. Hardly equal and this is from the committee itself as of July 9, 2007.

    Filibustering US Court nominees was started by the Democrats in the last Congress, and had never been done before that. The nominee either failed to make it out of committee or was voted down by the full Senate, but was never filibustered.