Monday, September 17, 2007
Whelan Explains Schumer and Aron Support of Mukasey
In a post on Monday, September 17th on "Mukasey, Schumer and Aron," Ed Whelan of the bench memos on National Review Online offers his insights on why the new Attorney General nominee has gained the initial referral by Sen. Schumer and Nan Aron, Alliance for Justices. In 2003, Schumer submitted a list of four judges he felt would garner unanimous support as nominees to the Supreme Court. These same four were touted by Aron. Mukasey was on this short list.
Whelan asserts that the list "was a cynical effort to enhance his [Schumer's] own standing to oppose whomever the President nominated to the Court. In other words, Schumer was promoting as Supreme Court candidates five individuals who he knew had no serious prospect of ever being nominated so that he could later paint himself as having been reasonable. And Aron simply cribbed his list.
Whelan asserts that the list "was a cynical effort to enhance his [Schumer's] own standing to oppose whomever the President nominated to the Court. In other words, Schumer was promoting as Supreme Court candidates five individuals who he knew had no serious prospect of ever being nominated so that he could later paint himself as having been reasonable. And Aron simply cribbed his list.
# posted by Kim Loontjer @ 2:52 PM 
