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THE TALK SHOW AMERICAN: SEN. SCHUMER CAUGHT ON CELLPHONE: 'WE ARE GOING TO WAR' OVER SUPREME COURT

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

SEN. SCHUMER CAUGHT ON CELLPHONE: 'WE ARE GOING TO WAR' OVER SUPREME COURT

**Exclusive**

Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Schumer got busy plotting away on the cellphone aboard a Washington, DC-New York Amtrak -- plotting Democrat strategy for the upcoming Supreme Court battle.

Schumer promised a fight over whoever the President�s nominee was: �It's not about an individual judge� It's about how it affects the overall makeup of the court.�

The chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was overheard on a long cellphone conversation with an unknown political ally, and the DRUDGE REPORT was there!

Schumer proudly declared: �We are contemplating how we are going to go to war over this.�

Schumer went on to say how hard it was to predict how a Supreme Court justice would turn out: �Even William Rehnquist is more moderate than they expected. The only ones that resulted how they predicted were [Antonin] Scalia and [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. So most of the time they've gotten their picks wrong, and that's what we want to do to them again.�

Schumer later went on to mock the �Gang of 14� judicial filibuster deal and said it wasn�t relevant in the Supreme Court debate.

�A Priscilla Owen or Janice Rogers Brown style appointment may not have been extraordinary to the appellate court but may be extraordinary to the Supreme Court.�

By the time the train hit New Jersey, Schumer shifted gears and called his friend and �Gang of 14� member, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The two talked in a very friendly manner about doing an event sometime this week together.

Developing�

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Filed By Matt Drudge

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