Charles Pickering InterviewJohn Hawkins
does a terrific job with these interviews, and this one is particularly timely, coming on the heels of the Alito hearings.
Charles Pickering: Now the politicians and the groups, absolutely, there’s no question in my mind that the extreme far left, secularist groups that fought me and the other Bush nominees – they would twist words to mean what they wanted to -- and some of their supporters in the Senate who were willing to go just as far as these groups were concerned, but I like to think the judges who have the responsibility of their being impartial are going to have some intellectual integrity. Now is this an absolute sure thing, they couldn’t get around it? No, nothing in life is, but I like the proposal that I make a lot better than I do hand wringing saying there’s nothing we can do about an activist court.
