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[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

It's Friday!! (And I am off today also - yippee!!!)

[Molly Pitcher]

A doz or so nutty protestors are greeting Sec. Ridge this hour as he speaks before the City Club in Cleveland....

[nicollo]

Anyone see the thread on John Kerry & court nominees? Kerry says he'll filibuster Supreme Court nominees who do not support abortion rights

Kerry is either stupid, subversive, or an unfathonable hack.

The complaint over the court appointments filibuster has centered on its violation of the constitutional powers of the Executive to appoint, with the Senate to "advise and consent." Kerry has gone further now by saying that he'd filibuster any nominee who won't in advance agree to uphold Roe v Wade.

It's far more insidious than the filibuster itself. Kerry is demanding that a Court nominee decide in advance of a case.

I'm tempted to say that he doesn't get it, as a more astute politician would never admit to it. Not even the most devious politician would admit it. And here Kerry says it flat out. Either way, a good constitutional slap is due the Jr. Senator of MA. He has just stood for a most wicked violation of an independent judiciary since FDR's "court packing" scheme. Not a good precedent.