Hugh Hewitt on the gang of 14 and judges

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Hugh has an interesting piece about the gang of 14 compromise and some rightous anger at the despicable filibuster of judges by the dems.

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/748...f-e7ca7b1c9ac5

Friday, November 17, 2006
The Gang of 14's Legacy: John McCain's Burden
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 9:26 PM

Today, soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the Federalist Society that if "Democrats want our cooperation, they'll give the president's judicial nominees an up-or-down vote."

The AP account terms this a "veiled threat," even though there is no "veil' in McConnell's statement. The forthright priority he is giving the repair of Constitutional process in the nomination and consideration of federal judicial nominations is in fact consistent with his much longer discussion of the importance of the judicial nominations' issue with me from Wednesday's program, and very similar to the opinions aired by Senator Coburn -a Judiciary Committee member-- on yesterday's broadcast from D.C., opinions widely shared by most Republican senators and most center-right activists and originalists. (Senator Coburm has some very interesting info on Peter Keisler's nomination to the D.C. Circuit.)

Early in the week Senator Chuck Schumer was telling reporters that “Judges are the most important,” and that “One more justice would have made it a 5-4 conservative, hard-right majority for a long time. That won’t happen.”

Now that's a "veiled" threat, because it doesn't forthrightly set out the particulars of the consequences that will follow from the nomination of another SCOTUS candidate like Chief Justice Roberts or Justice Alito. It also categorizes the two new members of SCOTUS as "hard right," which on the basis of what we have seen to date is just absurd, and an obvious part of Senator Schumer's continuing and relentless assault on the right of Americans to hold originalist, constitutional majoritarian views on the Constitution and its intended operation. Schumer is a master propagandist, and never lets up in his effort to define the terms in ways favorable to his radical agenda of delegitimizing the historical mainstream of American legal theory. (He is not, howver, so funny when trying.)

There is no need to rush with Senato Schumer. We will have two years to follow Senator Schumer's very dangerous and very dishonest assault on the judiciary.

These exchanges on judicial nominees are very important because they underscore why the Gang of 14 is so great a burden upon Senator McCain's presidential ambitions.
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