Mehlman: Dems need activist judges for 'victories they can't win at ballot box' [View All]

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Mehlman: Dems need activist judges for 'victories they can't win at ballot box'

11/06/2006 @ 9:31 pm

Filed by RAW STORY

In an op-ed column in today's edition of USA Today, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman said that given their electoral impotence, Democrats need the help of activist judges.

"Democrats ... vocally fought - and then voted against - Justices Roberts and Alito. Why? Because they depend on activist judges to hand them the victories they can't win at the ballot box," wrote Mehlman.

Mehlman repeats Republican themes heard often in the closing days of the mid-term election season, touching on the "war on terror" and tax cuts, along with typical cutdowns of the Democratic Party, seen as having the upper hand in the most recent polls.

"Americans will have the opportunity to choose between a party that wants to use every tool to keep us safe, or one that would take those tools away; between a party that wants to let you keep more of your own hard-earned money, or one that believes that money belongs to Washington; between a party that understands judicial restraint, or one that wants activist judges to fight its battles," Mehlman says in the op-ed.

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