Senate Democrats’ Mindless ‘Report’ on the Judiciary

They mock the supposed inconsistency of originalist judges but offer no coherent, substantive critique beyond reflexive partisan sentiments.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer addresses a news conference about the coronavirus response on Capitol Hill, May 5, 2020.

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Three months ago, Senator Chuck Schumer stood outside the Supreme Court building and warned Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that they would “pay the price” and would “not know what hit” them if they upheld a Louisiana law requiring abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Last week, that same Chuck Schumer and two other Democratic senators released a 54-page broadside against their Republican colleagues titled “Captured Courts: The GOP’s Big Money Assault on the Constitution, Our Independent Judiciary, and the Rule of Law.”

If Senator Schumer is concerned about the integrity of the Constitution and the independence of the judiciary, threatening justices like a third-rate mafioso on the steps of the Supreme Court in the name of abortion rights is a strange way of showing it.

John Hirschauer

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John Hirschauer

John Hirschauer is a former William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review Institute.

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