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Chuck Schumer: “I ask my colleague, does Miguel Estrada talk about how he feels about the 1st amendment, or the 2nd amendment, or the…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2003
I ask my colleague, does Miguel Estrada talk about how he feels about the 1st amendment, or the 2nd amendment, or the 11th amendment, or the commerce clause, or the right to privacy, or all the major issues that he will rule on for the rest of his life if he becomes a judge? And if he does not, other than to say, 'I will follow the law'--and we all know judges follow the law in different ways--then why isn't what is good for the goose good for the gander? In other words, when it was a Democratic nominee--and this is not tit for tat. My colleague, who cares about the judiciary, said he needed extensive questions. We didn't get that opportunity because, as my colleague well knows, Mr. Estrada just said, on every issue asked, 'I will follow the law.'
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada and the questioning process.

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