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More Dangerous Than "Activist Judges?"
Citing his concerns that the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez might be harboring terrorists, Pat Robertson recently announced that the U.S. should "take him out." New updates confirm that he did not mean a dinner date.
Appalling as the notorious right-wing leader's comments were, hundreds of judges must have heaved a collective sigh of relief when Robertson shifted his anti-terrorism policy from attacking "activist judges" to foreign leaders.
After all, it was Robertson who stated - reportedly with a straight face - that "activist judges" were a greater threat to America than terrorists like those who attacked us on 9/11/2001.
Wow.
We're a little nervous, over here, that although Robertson's priorities have shifted somewhat, he's still got his hand in the judicial nominations game. After all, as People for the American Way president Ralph Neas explained in a news conference today, Pat Robertson's chief lawyer, Jay Sekulow, spent much of the past year "selling" Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. to the radical right.
Sekulow apparently has reassured his allies that what we've seen from Roberts's record is true - the nominee is no friend of civil rights.
Appalling as the notorious right-wing leader's comments were, hundreds of judges must have heaved a collective sigh of relief when Robertson shifted his anti-terrorism policy from attacking "activist judges" to foreign leaders.
After all, it was Robertson who stated - reportedly with a straight face - that "activist judges" were a greater threat to America than terrorists like those who attacked us on 9/11/2001.
Wow.
We're a little nervous, over here, that although Robertson's priorities have shifted somewhat, he's still got his hand in the judicial nominations game. After all, as People for the American Way president Ralph Neas explained in a news conference today, Pat Robertson's chief lawyer, Jay Sekulow, spent much of the past year "selling" Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. to the radical right.
Sekulow apparently has reassured his allies that what we've seen from Roberts's record is true - the nominee is no friend of civil rights.
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