Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

The chutzpah of the Dems critism of Roberts short record

Washington Times editorial:

It has long been said -- even in the capital's post-September 11 environment -- that the most dangerous place to be in Washington is between Sen. Charles Schumer and a camera. Yet, even by his remarkable standard of chutzpah, Mr. Schumer outdid himself at Wednesday's press conference. The eminent UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, in his essay, "Yiddish & the Law," observes that the classic definition of chutzpah is itself taken from the law: Chutzpah is when the man who kills his parents begs for mercy because he's an orphan.
Mr. Schumer lamented that Judge John Roberts, who was confirmed in 2003 for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, "does not have a long and fulsome record -- he's only had two years as a judge."...

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Why does Judge Roberts have so little experience as a judge? It's because Mr. Schumer and his Democratic colleagues tried to spike Judge Roberts' chances of becoming a judge long before he finally reached the bench. In January 1992, President George H.W. Bush nominated Judge Roberts to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Sen. Joe Biden, a Democrat who then was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, refused to grant even a hearing. In May 2001, President Bush nominated Judge Roberts to the same court. Despite receiving what the Democrats considered to be the gold-standard endorsement -- a unanimous, well-qualified rating from the American Bar Association -- Mr. Schumer and his fellow Democrats refused to give Judge Roberts a hearing over the next 19 months. A Republican-controlled Senate finally confirmed Judge Roberts in May 2003 when he was nominated a third time.
Like the mercy-seeking orphan, Mr. Schumer would not be in the position he finds himself today if Democrats had not killed Judge Roberts' judicial opportunities in 1992, 2001 and 2002. Just as the murderous orphan deserved no mercy, Mr. Schumer should not expect to go fishing in waters so far over his head.