Casey Said He Would Vote For Sam Alito
Senators Chuck Schumer and Pat Leahy are now saying that they will not support any originalist judicial nominee.
So if in 2007 or 2008 President Bush nominates someone else like Justice Sam Alito for a court, I will expect then Senator Bob Casey to vote in favor of his or her confirmation.
Bob Casey will be the senator of all Pennsylvanians, not just those who voted for him. I will hold him accountable for what he does or does not do, just as Senator Rick Santorum was held accountable by those who did not vote for him. If Casey sides with the Democrats in order to filibuster originalist judges, he can expect to receive letters from my friends and I asking him to be more like his father and oppose judicial tyranny.
I definitely believe that all is not lost for a conservative judicial nominee under the new Senate, assuming that that nominee can get out of committee. If he gets out of committee, I see no reason why at least two Democrats, Bob Casey, and Ben Nelson wouldn’t vote for him, and we might even be able to swing Robert Byrd and or Tim Johnson. This will be an uphill fight, complete with a lot of name calling, mean spirited insults, and suggestions of extremism (as we exhaustingly watched with the Roberts and Alito hearings) but it might still be able to happen nonetheless. Let us hope and pray that if another justice does not step down during the last two years of the Bush administration, the Republicans will nominate, and lead to victory, another pro life, conservative president, who will honor the Constitution and appoint justices who do the same.
Comment by John Jackson — November 29, 2006 @ 11:59 am