Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
03-24-2016, 09:36 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/22/first-look-group-slams-supreme-court-pick-liberal-extremist/82140624/
WASHINGTON – A conservative legal group opposed to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is launching a digital ad campaign that paints Merrick Garland as too liberal to serve on the nation’s high court.
The 60-second commercial from the Judicial Crisis Network, shared first with USA TODAY, will appear on social media in Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado and Indiana — states with closely watched Senate races. It also will hit users in the nation’s capital and two solidly Republican states, West Virginia and North Dakota, to target Democratic senators there.
“Obama and his liberal allies have been working hard to paint Garland as a ‘moderate’ for the Supreme Court,” the ad says. “But there is no painting over the truth: Garland would be a tie-breaking vote for Obama’s big government liberalism. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Gutted.”
Its news release calls the veteran jurist a "liberal extremist."
The new ad, described as a five-figure buy, highlights the new line of attack emerging from Republicans who have pledged to block his confirmation in the Senate to allow Obama’s successor to fill the vacancy. Opponents to Garland’s appointment have shifted their focus away from November’s presidential election, suggesting instead that Garland’s judicial stances should give Republican senators pause.
“I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm … a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said over the weekend on Fox News.
Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, echoed that theme Tuesday.
“The White House is presenting him as a moderate,” she said of Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “He’s a reliable liberal vote. A lot of senators will have a hard time explaining to their constituents why they are supporting this nominee.”
Severino’s group already has spent $4 million in their campaign to derail Obama’s high court nominee since the death last month of fiercely conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. The stakes couldn’t be higher: If confirmed by the Senate, Garland would tip the court’s balance on issues ranging from abortion to the limits of presidential power.
USA TODAY
Supreme Court or bust: Merrick Garland
Republican worry their colleagues facing tough re-election battles will break the Senate’s blockade and support hearings and a possible floor vote on the confirmation. Just last week, Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., called on the Senate to “man up and cast a vote” on Garland.
At the same time, the White House and liberal groups are working to make Garland an example in battleground states for what they view as GOP obstructionism.
Administration allies staged protests across the country Monday, targeting Republican senators and plan a rally Wednesday outside the Pittsburgh office of Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a swing state Republican on the ballot in November. Similar rallies are planned next week in Iowa that focus on Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Among conservative groups’ objections: Garland’s 2007 vote as a member of the appellate court to rehear a split decision by a three-judge panel of the court, striking down Washington’s handgun ban as unconstitutional.
He voted with three other judges to have all members of the court review the decision. The court declined, by a 6-4 vote, hold a full rehearing of the case. Garland's allies argue that voting for a hearing by the entire appeals court doesn’t signal a judge’s position.
Opposing Garland poses big risks for Republicans. A Monmouth University poll released this week shows 69% of Americans believe the Senate should hold hearings on his confirmation. In addition, several prominent figures in the party have praised Garland.
Ken Starr, who oversaw the investigation that led to President Clinton’s impeachment, called him “superbly qualified” for the Supreme Court. Alberto Gonzales, the former U.S. attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, recently penned an op-ed in USA TODAY, warning that “if Americans believe the nominee is not being treated fairly, a lengthy delay could potentially jeopardize control of the Senate.”
USA TODAY
Alberto Gonzales: Give Judge Garland a vote
Severino, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has not disclosed how much more advertising the group plans to undertake in the months ahead, although she said she expects activity to taper off as voters become more focused on the presidential campaign.
But, she added, “we are certainly prepared to spend whatever we need to spend to make sure the seat is filled by someone who is worthy of Justice Scalia’s legacy.”
Its news release calls the veteran jurist a "liberal extremist."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Anybody that thought that the traitor obama picked a moderate, was and is living in a fairytale world IMHO.
THIS BASTARD SHOULD NOT EVEN BE SITTING ON THE COURT WHERE HE IS NOW....
YOU CAN BET YOUR LAST DIME, HOUSE, WIFE AND KIDS THAT HE IS FIRMLY IN THE TANK FOR THE OBAMA LEFTIST /SOCIALIST ANTI-GUN AGENDA AND INSANE , NATION DESTROYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT POLICIES..
THE BASTARD OBAMA HAS ALREADY INFECTED THE COURT WITH KAGAN AND SOTOMAYOR, BOTH SOLD OUT CORRUPT BAMBOTS AND LIBERAL/SOCIALIST PIECES OF SHIT.
NEITHER ONE WORTHY OF EVEN BEING A LAWYER EVEN LET ALONE A SCOTUS JUDGE.-TYR
WASHINGTON – A conservative legal group opposed to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is launching a digital ad campaign that paints Merrick Garland as too liberal to serve on the nation’s high court.
The 60-second commercial from the Judicial Crisis Network, shared first with USA TODAY, will appear on social media in Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado and Indiana — states with closely watched Senate races. It also will hit users in the nation’s capital and two solidly Republican states, West Virginia and North Dakota, to target Democratic senators there.
“Obama and his liberal allies have been working hard to paint Garland as a ‘moderate’ for the Supreme Court,” the ad says. “But there is no painting over the truth: Garland would be a tie-breaking vote for Obama’s big government liberalism. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Gutted.”
Its news release calls the veteran jurist a "liberal extremist."
The new ad, described as a five-figure buy, highlights the new line of attack emerging from Republicans who have pledged to block his confirmation in the Senate to allow Obama’s successor to fill the vacancy. Opponents to Garland’s appointment have shifted their focus away from November’s presidential election, suggesting instead that Garland’s judicial stances should give Republican senators pause.
“I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm … a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said over the weekend on Fox News.
Carrie Severino, chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, echoed that theme Tuesday.
“The White House is presenting him as a moderate,” she said of Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “He’s a reliable liberal vote. A lot of senators will have a hard time explaining to their constituents why they are supporting this nominee.”
Severino’s group already has spent $4 million in their campaign to derail Obama’s high court nominee since the death last month of fiercely conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. The stakes couldn’t be higher: If confirmed by the Senate, Garland would tip the court’s balance on issues ranging from abortion to the limits of presidential power.
USA TODAY
Supreme Court or bust: Merrick Garland
Republican worry their colleagues facing tough re-election battles will break the Senate’s blockade and support hearings and a possible floor vote on the confirmation. Just last week, Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., called on the Senate to “man up and cast a vote” on Garland.
At the same time, the White House and liberal groups are working to make Garland an example in battleground states for what they view as GOP obstructionism.
Administration allies staged protests across the country Monday, targeting Republican senators and plan a rally Wednesday outside the Pittsburgh office of Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a swing state Republican on the ballot in November. Similar rallies are planned next week in Iowa that focus on Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Among conservative groups’ objections: Garland’s 2007 vote as a member of the appellate court to rehear a split decision by a three-judge panel of the court, striking down Washington’s handgun ban as unconstitutional.
He voted with three other judges to have all members of the court review the decision. The court declined, by a 6-4 vote, hold a full rehearing of the case. Garland's allies argue that voting for a hearing by the entire appeals court doesn’t signal a judge’s position.
Opposing Garland poses big risks for Republicans. A Monmouth University poll released this week shows 69% of Americans believe the Senate should hold hearings on his confirmation. In addition, several prominent figures in the party have praised Garland.
Ken Starr, who oversaw the investigation that led to President Clinton’s impeachment, called him “superbly qualified” for the Supreme Court. Alberto Gonzales, the former U.S. attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, recently penned an op-ed in USA TODAY, warning that “if Americans believe the nominee is not being treated fairly, a lengthy delay could potentially jeopardize control of the Senate.”
USA TODAY
Alberto Gonzales: Give Judge Garland a vote
Severino, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has not disclosed how much more advertising the group plans to undertake in the months ahead, although she said she expects activity to taper off as voters become more focused on the presidential campaign.
But, she added, “we are certainly prepared to spend whatever we need to spend to make sure the seat is filled by someone who is worthy of Justice Scalia’s legacy.”
Its news release calls the veteran jurist a "liberal extremist."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Anybody that thought that the traitor obama picked a moderate, was and is living in a fairytale world IMHO.
THIS BASTARD SHOULD NOT EVEN BE SITTING ON THE COURT WHERE HE IS NOW....
YOU CAN BET YOUR LAST DIME, HOUSE, WIFE AND KIDS THAT HE IS FIRMLY IN THE TANK FOR THE OBAMA LEFTIST /SOCIALIST ANTI-GUN AGENDA AND INSANE , NATION DESTROYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT POLICIES..
THE BASTARD OBAMA HAS ALREADY INFECTED THE COURT WITH KAGAN AND SOTOMAYOR, BOTH SOLD OUT CORRUPT BAMBOTS AND LIBERAL/SOCIALIST PIECES OF SHIT.
NEITHER ONE WORTHY OF EVEN BEING A LAWYER EVEN LET ALONE A SCOTUS JUDGE.-TYR