"Virtually every sentence in Durbin's statement contains what might charitably be called a serious misstatement. He doesn't understand the "unitary executive". He doesn't understand that the plaintiff in Griswold had to work hard to get himself fined. He doesn't understand that judicial expansion of "freedom" necessarily limits American citizens' ability to define what genuine freedoms are. Now he's linking Alito to the mine tragedy in West Virginia. It would take 25 pages to respond to all his distortions.
His insincere assertions of sincerity are stomach-churning."
Schumer Opening Statement
"Schumer, too, is hiding behind the skirts of Harriet Miers and Justice O'Connor.
Thinks it's the role of justices to "define our freedom". So much for any role left to representative democracy.
Schumer says that Alito has a "triply high burden". But given that he voted against Roberts and has repeatedly distorted Alito's record, there's no point in trying to clear the Schumer hurdle."
Alito and the Ted Kennedy...Otherwise Know As Senator Dickum Then Dunkum... “Study”
"In his opening statement at the Samuel Alito confirmation hearings Monday afternoon, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy cited an academic study which he said showed that average Americans "have had a hard time getting a fair shake" in Alito's courtroom at the U.S. Court of Appeals. Alito's decisions in the cases of individual rights, Kennedy said, are part of a "record that troubles me deeply."
"In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs, or working for less and trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of individual citizens," Kennedy said. "He has acted instead in favor of the government, large corporations, and other powerful interests. In a study by a well-respected expert, Professor Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School, Judge Alito was found to rule against the individual in 84 percent of his dissents. To put it plainly, average Americans have had a hard time getting a fair shake in his courtroom."
As evidence for his claim, Kennedy's staff handed out copies of a December 29, 2005, letter from Sunstein to Kennedy outlining the findings of the study to members of the press at the hearings. But even a cursory reading of the Sunstein letter suggests that his analysis was so tentative, so filled with caveats, and based so extensively on political assumptions as to prove virtually nothing..."
All in all some hilarious stuff. Were Mel Brooks and Woody Allen to have combined forces at their absolute peak, we would not have been afforded so laughable a dialogue as compared to what is spewing from the America haters disguised as Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. What DOES it take for such men and women to feel genuine shame?
For decent coverage of today's events please click into National Review Online's Bench Memos
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