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SUBJECT: Senate Democrats are proving once again that no judicial nominee is too extreme for them to stomach.
Submitted by
Harumph #11038 from OHIO on
Senate Democrats are proving once again that no judicial nominee is too extreme
for them to stomach. A move seems to be afoot to open debate on the Senate floor
this week on the nomination of David Hamilton of Indiana to the 7th Circuit U.S.
Court of Appeals. This judge is a radical's radical.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee,
sent a letter on Friday to his fellow senators outlining his objections to Mr.
Hamilton, who is a federal district judge. The senator first objected to Judge
Hamilton's stated belief that judges should effectively amend the Constitution
- "writing footnotes to the Constitution," the judge called it - through
evolving case law. Second, Judge Hamilton has publicly and specifically embraced
the president's "empathy standard," which even Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor has now openly rejected.
Third, Judge Hamilton in many cases has shown an extreme hostility against
innocuous expressions of religion in the public square. Mr. Sessions noted,
though, that Judge Hamilton's odd ruling in Hinrichs v. Bosma "prohibited
prayers in the Indiana House of Representatives that expressly mentioned
Jesus Christ ... yet he allowed prayers which mentioned Allah."
Fourth, Mr. Sessions pointed out that "lawyers in the Almanac of the Federal
Judiciary describe Judge Hamilton as one of the most lenient judges in his
district on criminal matters," including the case of a police officer who
videotaped his own sexual encounters with two teenagers. The senator also
objects to the judge's extreme actions in blocking an "informed consent"
law on abortion.
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As we have said many times. All you idiots needed was enough rope to
hang yourselves.
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