What Democrats Must Do To Stop A Right-Wing Hijacking Of The Judiciary
What Democrats Must Do To Stop A Right-Wing Hijacking Of The Judiciary
Robert Creamer
Huffington Post
So what can Democrats do?
For any nomination to the Garland seat on the Supreme Court, and for the first 100 vacancies to the lower courts, Democrats should use one simple criterion for approving any nominee:
Would the nominee be similar to those who would have been proposed by Barack Obama?
If the answer is no, Democrats in the Senate should simply refuse to vote yes – ever.
In foreign affairs we all know that in many circumstances if a foreign actor takes a hostile action against the United States, it may be necessary to take proportionate retaliatory action to prevent that actor from repeating those hostile actions with impunity.
The same is true here. If Democrats allow the right wing to steal these seats in the judiciary – if Democrats offer no proportionate response – the right will create a judiciary that is a right-wing ideological rubber stamp – not the independent judiciary that is so necessary today to protect our civil liberties.
