Contact: Mike Russell - at 703-683-5004 (ext. 109)
August 17, 2005
Washington, D.C. Judicial Confirmation Network (www.judicialnetwork.com) Counsel Wendy E. Long today made the following comment on statements released yesterday by U.S. Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT):
"Senate liberals are obviously getting desperate. We've already seen the 'smear' from NARAL, and now we're getting into the 'fear' part of the liberal tag-team's 'fear-and-smear' campaign against Judge Roberts.
"The New York Times told the liberal group NARAL to apologize for unfairly smearing Judge Roberts. Democratic Senators, remarkably, demonstrated they had less integrity and ethics than The New York Times when they uttered not a peep over the lying NARAL ad last week. Kennedy and Leahy obviously stand with the liberal extremists in their attempt to politicize the confirmation process, just as they have politicized the federal courts. They are trying to twist memos written by John Roberts as a lawyer for the Reagan and first Bush administrations. These writings reflect legal not political judgments made by lawyer John Roberts. But Leahy and Kennedy want to make these legal analyses into a liberal checklist of pet issues to create a voter's guide against Judge Roberts.
"The liberal extremists are trying to stop Judge Roberts because they know he will apply the law, respect democracy, and uphold the will of the people in our government that operates on the consent of the governed. The liberals have a radical agenda that they know they can never win through the democratic process: same-sex marriage, taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and the public square, substituting international and foreign law for the authority of the United States Constitution, implementing racial preferences, and allowing seizure of private property by local tax-hungry local governments, and preventing the notification of parents when minor girls get abortions.
"Because liberals can't win these issues at the ballot box, they rely on their allies in the courts to enact this agenda for them. They know that Judge Roberts is unlikely to be a reliable vote for their issues. He's a man of great intellect, legal training, integrity, and understanding of the limited role of the Court in our system of government. Because liberal Senators like Kennedy and Leahy will sink this low egged on by the extremist interest groups to whom they answer the vote to confirm Judge Roberts is now going to be very close.
"The demand for further documents beyond the 75,000 pages already released, more than any other nominee in history is obviously a fishing expedition and delaying tactic so that these Senators' outside allies like NARAL can launch more smear campaigns, while the Senators continue to spread fear. The American people will see through this charade. Does anyone really think the American people will side with Ted Kennedy over Judge Roberts a man of impeccable character?"
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