Senate Politics: Unacceptable Relativism

My letter to New York Senator Chuck Schumer after a disgraceful senate hearing:

Senator Schumer,

This morning’s speech on the senate floor sounded familiar. In fact, your rhetoric sounded identical to that given in opposition to Owens’ nomination in your press release on May 9. You stated that Priscilla Owen was the definition of a judicial activist. However, now you claim Janice Brown is the epitome of an activist judge. It is apparent to me that in your view, any conservative judge would fall under this definition. This morning’s appeal was generic and disingenuous.

Secondly, I would like to comment on traditional republican opposition to activist judges verses their “seemingly” overwhelming support in present circumstances. The disgusting aspect of all this is that democrats have done the inverse. Democrats have heralded activist judges as “freedom fighters” and a “representation of balanced government” for years. Now that republicans are trying to challenge liberal control of the judiciary, democrats feel judicial activism is somehow less glorious.

If this two-faced partisan rhetoric is indicative of “100 years of legal tradition and clear legislative intent” then I believe political reformation is past due. Will you lead the way?