Chuck Schumer Seeks New Supreme Court Standard

From NewsMax.com:

Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee point-man Charles Schumer said Sunday that he wanted to use confirmation hearings on Judge John Roberts to establish a new standard for the kinds of questions a Supreme Court nominee must answer to be confirmed.

"I'm trying to set the predicate for future nominations," Schumer told WCBS TV in New York, "by asking and making sure that everyone agrees it's okay for us to ask a whole lot of questions and for him to answer them as a prerequisite for getting the nomination."

The New York Democrat complained that "some on the hard right" don't want nominees grilled on their views about the right to privacy, which Schumer acknowledged was the basis for Roe vs Wade.

But he insisted: "This position has such awesome, awesome . . . responsibility that, that nominee has an obligation to answer questions."

"That's the first debate and I'm pushing for answering the questions," Schumer said.

My Comments:
Schumer wants President Bush's nominees to answer questions no other Supreme Court nominee has had to answer - the last 2 Supreme Court Justices, nominated by a member of Schumer's own party, certainly didn't answer such questions. And, although he's claiming he wants a standard that would apply to all nominees going forward, it's obvious he only intends for his standard to apply to all Republican nominees going forward.

But we know what Chucky is really after: he wants a pro-Roe litmus test for all Republican nominees to the federal bench.