In a Jop-ed, “Obama’s day of reckoning,” Mr. Wilson then fumed that “Obama’s views reflect what Pelosi, Reid, and enlightened liberals everywhere have honestly believed from the inception of this debate: the power of government is unlimited and should be used by the governing class to impose whatever it wishes on the rest of us.” Wilson ranted: “I hope the Court checks Obama’s dangerous standard of what is constitutional: Obamacare ‘will be upheld because it should be upheld.’ A valid law is what King Barack says is a valid law.” Mr. Wilson called the ACA “a massive, unworkable intrusion by the federal government into one sixth of our economy (the same economy which has all but suffocated under Obama’s other policies).” Īfter President Obama predicted that the Supreme Court would uphold the ACA because Congress had a constitutional basis for passing it, Mr. Which, coincidentally, will be the waiting time to see your government-assigned doctor once Obamacare kicks in fully.” In another angry, ideological op-ed, Mr. Instead of eleven weeks of vacation for every American worker, that would be over 28 weeks off. A cadrillion dollars of spending, turns out. Nancy Pelosi famously said we had to pass Obamacare to find out what was in it. Wilson wrote: “Then there is Obamacare, the ‘Affordable Care Act,’ which will produce an unaffordable $2.6 trillion in new cost over the next ten years. In a 2012 op-ed replete with bombast and hyperbole, Mr. Wilson has repeatedly attacked the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), which has provided critical health care coverage to tens of millions of Americans. At this moment, the Senate should devote its attention to aiding the tens of millions of people in this nation struggling to survive during this public health emergency. Circuit nominee Justin Walker, and it would be wrong to hold a hearing for Mr. It was wrong for the Senate to dedicate important time and resources, as well as risk the health and safety of Senate personnel, by holding a hearing last week for controversial D.C. Wilson who seek to dismantle health care protections for vulnerable people. It is especially disturbing that the Senate would process judicial nominees like Mr. Wilson’s nomination – or any judicial nomination – at this perilous time in our nation’s history, when the Senate should be laser focused on efforts to save lives and mitigate the profound economic turmoil of COVID-19 on the American people. And he would exacerbate the lack of representation on the Fifth Circuit, which covers the most racially diverse population in America. He would tilt the Fifth Circuit – already the most conservative federal appellate court in the country – even further to the right. Wilson, by contrast, will pass that test with flying colors. Wilson was put forward for the Fifth Circuit only after the previous nominee for this vacancy, Halil Ozerden, was withdrawn by the Trump administration after failing to pass the Senate Republicans’ ideological purity test. He is unfit to serve a lifetime appointment on the federal bench.
And he has engaged in ad hominem attacks on Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other prominent Democrats. He has lambasted access to health care, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, and common-sense gun safety laws. Wilson is a far-right firebrand whose record shows he is more suited to serve as a Fox News commentator than federal judge. On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 220 national organizations committed to promoting and protecting the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States, I write in strong opposition to the confirmation of Cory Wilson to the U.S. OPPOSE THE CONFIRMATION OF CORY WILSON TO THE U.S.
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