Buyer's Remorse
(Fox News) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted to confirm Chief Justice John Roberts, now wishes he hadn't.
In an interview the Politico newspaper, Leahy says — "I think in his actions and the actions in which he has joined, he has made the court an arm of the Republican party ... The Republicans say they don't want an activist Supreme Court, but this is the most activist Supreme Court we have ever seen, running roughshod over the Constitution, like Plessy versus Ferguson did."
Leahy was referring to the 1886 Supreme Court ruling upholding segregated accommodations for blacks and whites on interstate railroads, which would seem an unlikely example of judicial activism.
In an interview the Politico newspaper, Leahy says — "I think in his actions and the actions in which he has joined, he has made the court an arm of the Republican party ... The Republicans say they don't want an activist Supreme Court, but this is the most activist Supreme Court we have ever seen, running roughshod over the Constitution, like Plessy versus Ferguson did."
Leahy was referring to the 1886 Supreme Court ruling upholding segregated accommodations for blacks and whites on interstate railroads, which would seem an unlikely example of judicial activism.
posted by BP News Bureau | 7:32 AM
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