red states rule
08-18-2007, 11:56 AM
It seems to me the liberal media and Dems are trying to make Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito a campaign issue in 08
Is it because they do not make law from the bench and they follow the US Constitution?
Roberts and Alito: An '08 issue?
By: Carrie Budoff
Aug 13, 2007 10:41 AM EST
Two 50-something men who wear black robes, rarely speak in public and remain unrecognizable to most Americans are turning up in campaign playbooks from Oregon to Maine.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito may well become the bogeymen of 2008.
Their decisions in the last term on abortion, school desegregation and pay equity angered pillars of the Democratic constituency, already prompting Senate campaigns and issue advocates to invoke the Supreme Court in fundraising pitches and attacks on Republican incumbents.
“When you are dealing with hypotheticals, when you talk about civil rights, privacy, Roe v. Wade, many people didn’t take it seriously,†said Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group. “Now, it is no longer a hypothetical, but it is real. That makes a big difference.â€
Five of the nine justices will be at least 70 by Election Day 2008, including three of the court’s most liberal members.
for the complete article
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5350.html
Is it because they do not make law from the bench and they follow the US Constitution?
Roberts and Alito: An '08 issue?
By: Carrie Budoff
Aug 13, 2007 10:41 AM EST
Two 50-something men who wear black robes, rarely speak in public and remain unrecognizable to most Americans are turning up in campaign playbooks from Oregon to Maine.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito may well become the bogeymen of 2008.
Their decisions in the last term on abortion, school desegregation and pay equity angered pillars of the Democratic constituency, already prompting Senate campaigns and issue advocates to invoke the Supreme Court in fundraising pitches and attacks on Republican incumbents.
“When you are dealing with hypotheticals, when you talk about civil rights, privacy, Roe v. Wade, many people didn’t take it seriously,†said Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group. “Now, it is no longer a hypothetical, but it is real. That makes a big difference.â€
Five of the nine justices will be at least 70 by Election Day 2008, including three of the court’s most liberal members.
for the complete article
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5350.html