Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is clearly more interested in becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee than he is in adhering to his moral values, which include the protection of a woman to have the right to abort her child. He has now backpedaled from his warning to President Bush not to send up pro-life judicial nominees.
Meanwhile, over the weekend the Washington Times reported on the fallout over Specter’s remarks last week:
Mr. Specter also was accused of insulting the entire high court by saying there are no legal giants on the bench. “With all due respect to the U.S. Supreme Court, we don’t have one,” he said.
“Yeah, there’s nobody of the caliber of, say, Robert Bork,” scoffed one Republican Judiciary staffer in reference to the revered Reagan nominee who was rejected in the Senate with crucial help from Mr. Specter. “I mean, all we’ve got on there are people like [Bork replacement] Anthony Kennedy. Gee, I wonder how that happened.”
