{"id":97943,"date":"2016-07-21T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=97943"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T18:13:27","slug":"rewire-chides-senate-claims-obama-supreme-court-nominee-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rewire-chides-senate-claims-obama-supreme-court-nominee-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewire chides Senate, calls Obama Supreme Court nominee &#8220;moderate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Jessica Mason Pieklo, best known for pushing <a href=\"\/news\/?s=Pieklo\">pro-abortion falsehoods<\/a> under the guise of legal expertise, is at it again. At Rewire (formerly known as RH Reality Check), she <a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2016\/07\/20\/republicans-history-obstructing-garland-supreme-court\/\">complains<\/a> that \u201cSenate Republicans\u2019 refusal to do their jobs\u201d has given Barack Obama\u2019s judicial nominee Merrick Garland \u201cthe dubious distinction of being the longest U.S. Supreme Court nominee ever to go without a vote to confirm or reject his appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garland, <a href=\"\/news\/why-are-abortion-advocates-praising-obamas-scotus-nominee-merrick-garland\/\">you may recall<\/a>, hasn\u2019t ruled directly on abortion, but he did <a href=\"\/news\/obama-nominee-garland-sided-against-priests-for-life-in-contraception-mandate-case\/\">vote<\/a> to deny Priests for Life an en banc hearing in its case against the Obama Administration\u2019s contraception mandate, effectively preserving an earlier ruling in favor of the mandate.\u00a0He\u2019s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/aul-calls-on-the-senate-to-hold-the-line-against-obamas-supreme-court-pick-300237135.html\">lavished praise<\/a> on Justice Harry Blackmun, author of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and formerly clerked for Justice William Brennan, a \u201cliving Constitution\u201d proponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2010\/12\/1993\/\">instrumental in shaping the \u201cprivacy\u201d rationale<\/a> that led to <em>Roe<\/em>. Seventy-five percent<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2016\/03\/16\/merrick-garland-supreme-court-obama-nominee\/81529760\/\">\u00a0of Garland\u2019s law clerks<\/a> have gone on to work for judicial activists like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, while just a quarter of them went on to work for originalists.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In addition, President Obama is <a href=\"\/news\/hillary-likes-idea-of-supreme-court-justice-obama\/\">pro-abortion <\/a>and\u00a0has <a href=\"\/news\/why-right-wing-watch-has-it-wrong-on-pro-life-skepticism-of-merrick-garland\/\">said all of his nominees would uphold Roe<\/a>\u2014a promise he may have gone\u00a0out of his way to assure Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards of, as she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/432917\/cecil-richards-merrick-garland-supreme-court-nomination-president-obama-commitment\">was seen entering<\/a> the White House minutes after Obama concluded his announcement of Garland\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Pieklo completely ignores all that, instead asserting without evidence that Garland \u201cis practically a gift to Senate Republicans in all his moderate-aging-white-guy-ness,\u201d a \u201cmoderate who has generally received bipartisan praise and support throughout his career and should, on any other day, sail through the confirmation process.\u201d Right, because you say so.<\/p>\n<p>She writes that refusing to consider Garland in light of all this is \u201can utter, total failure by grown men, and a few women, in the Senate to do the kind of thing they\u2019re supposed to in exchange for getting paid by the rest of us\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It\u2019s not just that the Senate hasn\u2019t held a vote. They have held no hearings. Several senators have refused to meet with Garland. They have taken. No. Action. Not a bit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what?<\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Adam Peters <a href=\"\/news\/naral-says-senators-should-do-their-job-i-agree\/\">has explained<\/a>, the Constitution simply charges senators with the duty of \u201cadvice and consent\u201d to presidents\u2019 judicial nominees. Nowhere does it specifically mandate hearings, meetings, or votes. So categorically refusing the judicial nominees of a president who has made clear he selects them based on unconstitutional criteria <em>is<\/em> doing their job.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Instead, their objection is to the fact that the democratic process should guarantee they lose control of the Supreme Court. Unless, of course, they can stop that process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nonsense. Yes, the democratic process chose Obama in 2012\u2026 and then it gave the Senate <a href=\"\/news\/abortion-lobby-in-deep-denial-over-last-weeks-electoral-thrashing\/\">back to pro-life Republicans in 2014<\/a>. If we\u2019re supposed to take either election as a mandate, the more recent one logically takes precedence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Conservatives have spent decades investing in the federal courts as a partisan tool. They did so by building an infrastructure of sympathetic conservative federal judges through appointments when in executive power, and by blocking liberal attempts to do the same when in the political minority [\u2026] And no, the other side doesn\u2019t do this. Federal judgeships have always been political. But never have the Democrats used the judiciary as a blatantly partisan extension of their elected members.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even after years of thinking we\u2019ve seen the worst that abortion advocates\u00a0have to offer, the dishonesty and hypocrisy here are astounding; \u201cinvesting in the federal courts as a partisan tool\u201d is the abortion movement\u2019s number-one priority! The broad, overwhelming consensus among abortion supporters is that <em>the voters do not have any right to decide abortion policy for themselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It started with early-term abortion itself in <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, effectively took over late-term abortion in <em>Doe v. Bolton<\/em> and the attempts to judicially invalidate the partial-birth abortion ban, and today there is virtually no aspect of abortion policy abortion advocates\u00a0will not sue when democracy doesn\u2019t go their way: <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-u-s-supreme-court-texas\/\">clinic regulations<\/a>, <a href=\"\/news\/kansas-supreme-court-to-take-up-dismemberment-abortion-suit\/\">dismemberment abortion bans<\/a>, <a href=\"\/news\/satanic-temple-files-new-lawsuit-missouri-pro-life-laws\/\">waiting periods, informed consent<\/a>, <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-planned-parenthood-sues-texas-reinstate-medicaid-money\/\">Planned Parenthood tax subsidies<\/a>, even <a href=\"\/news\/tn-lawsuit-seeks-to-throw-out-election-resulting-in-pro-life-victory\/\">ballot initiative votes that don&#8217;t go their way<\/a>. Heck, Pieklo herself even <a href=\"\/news\/rh-reality-check-legal-expert-gives-censorship-a-pass-lies-about-pro-lifers-lying\/\">defended<\/a> a lawsuit to silence pro-life speech she didn\u2019t like.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Meanwhile, thanks to conservative obstruction under Democratic administrations\u2014most egregiously under President Obama\u201471 district court seats currently sit vacant. Twenty-four of those seats are in jurisdictions considered by the courts themselves to be judicial emergencies: places where the caseload is so great or the seat has remained vacant for so long the court is at risk of no longer functioning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Vacancies are far from ideal, but waiting for judges who will eventually do the job right is still preferable to seating judges chosen <em>because<\/em>\u00a0the president trusts them to make decisions based on something other than the law.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans have <a href=\"\/news\/wasnt-majority-vote-enough-defund-planned-parenthood-insane-filibuster-rules\/\">let<\/a> pro-lifers <a href=\"\/news\/mcconnell-pro-lifers-forget-defunding-planned-parenthood-next-president\/\">down<\/a> in other areas, but they should be commended for holding firm in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Mason Pieklo, best known for pushing pro-abortion falsehoods under the guise of legal expertise, is at it again. At Rewire (formerly known as RH Reality Check), she complains that \u201cSenate Republicans\u2019 refusal to do their jobs\u201d has given Barack Obama\u2019s judicial nominee Merrick Garland \u201cthe dubious distinction of being the longest U.S. Supreme Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":81688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rewire chides Senate, calls Obama Supreme Court nominee &quot;moderate&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Merrick Garland praised Roe author Justice Harry Blackmun, and 75% of Garland\u2019s law clerks went on to work for judicial activists like Ginsburg &amp; Kagan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/rewire-chides-senate-claims-obama-supreme-court-nominee-moderate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rewire chides Senate, calls Obama Supreme Court nominee &quot;moderate&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Merrick Garland praised Roe author Justice Harry Blackmun, and 75% of Garland\u2019s law clerks went on to work for judicial activists like Ginsburg &amp; 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