Empathy = Extra-judicial & Lawless
Dave Weigel penned an article for The Washington Independent about the conservatives who will be leading the charge against Obama’s pick to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. Here’s how it kicks off…
Curt Levey sometimes wears a lapel pin with the faces of Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito and the legend “Thanks, W.” Once in a while he swaps that out for another button, with the same portraits of George W. Bush’s two high court appointments, but a more forward-looking slogan: “The kind of change we can believe in.”
“I used to work to confirm good judicial nominees,” Levey told TWI this week. “Now I’m trying to limit the damage Barack Obama can do.”
Roberts & Alito lapel pins, who knew? If you thought this was going to be a cakewalk for the Dems, you need to read it all:
“We had one nominee, Miguel Estrada, who was denied an up or down vote despite having majority support” said Bill Wichterman, a former aide to [former Sen. Bill] Frist who is now a senior legislative advisor to Covington & Burling. “We now have a new tradition — we can filibuster nominees who have majority support. If they say ‘you guys are hypocrites,’ we tell them, ‘we are restoring a new tradition, and you guys set it.’”
Posted by Kevin K. on 05/07/09 at 10:49 AM • Permalink
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