Courts and the Democratic agenda

We all know that Democrats and liberals have used the courts for years to push their views on the public. They're fully aware that they don't win elections by honestly pushing socialism, massive tax increases, rights for criminals, et. al, so they've slowly pushed those ideas through using the courts.

And now they're having hissy fits because the Supreme Court has chipped away at some of their precious left-wing dogma.



[quote]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.”

Schumer’s assertion comes as Democrats and liberal advocacy groups are increasingly complaining that the Supreme Court with Bush’s nominees – Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito – has moved quicker than expected to overturn legal precedents.

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.[/quote]

What a liar. The whole point the hearings as far as Schumer and the other Democrats were concerned was to find a reason not to confirm Bush's appointees. Alito and Roberts didn't give them that reason. So now it's "we were tricked! Waaah!"

I can't stand liars like Schumer. He knows full well that a left-leaning Supreme Court is the liberal's best friend in this country. Without that, they have major problems.