Sen. Leahy: Court's decision most partisan since Bush v. Gore

[kpete]

Source: The Hill


Sen. Leahy: Court's decision most partisan since Bush v. Gore
By Susan Crabtree - 01/28/10 11:50 AM ET

The Supreme Court’s decision on campaign spending is its most partisan since Bush v. Gore, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said Thursday.

Leahy took a broadside to the decision in a floor speech, criticizing it for overturning nearly a century of restrictions on corporate and union independent expenditures in elections.

“The Citizens United decision turns the idea of government of, by and for the people on its head, and creates new rights for Wall Street at the expense of Main Street,” Leahy said in a Leahy said.

He condemned it as the court’s most partisan ruling since its decision effectively declaring George W. Bush the winner of Florida and the 2000 presidential election.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/78527-sen-leahy-courts-decision-most-partisan-since-bush-v-gore-

[joeybee12]

1. KNR!!!!

[SPedigrees]

2. Give em hell Leahy!

I'm so proud of our Vermont senators. A pity Washington doesn't have more of Leahy and Sanders' ilk.

[Demeter]

3. Well, Duh!

Seeing as the same criminals (and their assigns) are responsible for both, it stands to reason.

[L. Coyote]

6. One leads to the other, and if the first was a crime ....

[avaistheone1]

4. Thank you Senator Leahy

[defendandprotect]

5. Someone on Olberman last night described it as "political expression" . .. !!!

[MisterP]

7. KnR4VT but, really, it can't be that partisan if a good chunk of the Dems wept for joy when the

ruling came down...

[glitch]

8. How should we count moles in the partisan equation? nt

[road2000]

9. Had Bush v. Gore not happened,

we wouldn't be mourning this decision today.

And no matter how disillusioned many on this board are over Obama, he did not -- and will not -- appoint a right-wing nutcase to SCOTUS.

[Ter]

13. How do you know?

Bush's two Justices were both in his second term. It's no done deal that Gore would have been re-elected in 2004. He might have, but 16 years of one party controlling the WH seems rather unlikely.

[Marthe48]

16. FDR+Truman = 16 yrs

1932 to 1948 -- the Repugs screwed over the country good enough in 1920's for the electorate to be turned off their party, and they're doing another good enough screwing now, 16 yrs in Dem control could happen. The way things are going, it won't, but it could.

[24601]

17. except that Truman left office in 1953, following Eisenhower's

election in 1952.

[Marthe48]

20. and FDR died without finishing his 4th term

but it was a great run.

[SPedigrees]

15. That is the truth, Road2000. And the key to overturning this and preventing

other equally bad decisions is to keep Obama in office for a second term and vote in another dem after O's second term. Decades of republican rule unleashed this band of jackals on us, and only democrats can tip the scales by appointing sane judges (and hopefully young healthy ones) over the coming years.

[Blue Owl]

10. Turn the heat up, Pat

Turn it up higher.

In fact turn it up so high that Alito's wife starts weeping uncontrollably.

[santamargarita]

11. And we really got fucked on that too!

:mad:

[laylah]

12. Flay them!

www.supremecourtus.gov

[Overseas]

14. K&R. And yet a la Gingrich, the GOP accuses the other side of wanting activist judges.

When their appointees have been the most activist.

[TexasObserver]

18. Yes, it is another major power grab by the GOP Gang of Five.

Count me among those who want Democrats to go after the Supreme Court. Investigate them. Investigate their hunting trips with Cheney. Make their benefactors come to congress and discuss the fancy manner in which the justices are kept on their hunting and golfing outings at the expense of people who have major economic or political interests in the cases before the court.

Scalia should be impeached and removed for misconduct, including inappropriate gifts from litigants before his court. Alito and Roberts should be impeached and removed for lying under oath to congress.

[classysassy]

19. The founders

were not perfect men,one of their biggest mistakes was making supreme courts justices a life time job.Just as cabinet members,they should serve at the pleasure of the standing president.