Fleming Says President’s Supreme Court Nomination Surrender to Extremists

Clinton, MS (PRWEB) November 2, 2005

State Representative Erik R. Fleming, D-Clinton, an announced Democratic candidate for the US Senate in 2006, offered a response today to President Bush’s nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court.

Fleming said: “It is with deep regret to hear that the President has nominated Federal District Judge Samuel Alito to be his nominee for the United States Supreme Court in an apparent surrender to the extremist faction of his party.

“Alito has been referred to as ‘Scalia-like’ in his position on the federal bench, which cannot bode well for the majority of American citizens, whose human rights and constitutional rights hang in the balance.

“It is important that the Supreme Court be a bastion of protection against those who seek to abandon the fundamental concept that the United States Constitution is a living, breathing document. Those strict constructionists would have opposed the very decisions that Rosa Parks and others fought so valiantly for. Any attempt to appease this constituency is, in my opinion, a detrimental mistake for the sake of political gain.

“Whereas the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Court was filled with concerns about her judicial and constitutional competency, at least the thought process of seeking a moderate jurist to replace a moderate jurist was commendable. I am disappointed that the President has decided at this time in American political history to abandon that strategy in order to mend political fences.

“It was my hope that the President would have stayed above the partisan fray, as he did with the Roberts nomination. However, it is obvious that he has chosen not to do so, and that is indeed disappointing.”

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