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More Parsky Watch Parsky Watch - The Magazine Take the Parsky Watch IQ Test Visit the Parsky Watch Store	Back to Parsky Watch archives Sen. Schumer [D-NY] proposes more Parsky Commissions Parsky Watch #44 May 8, 2003 PARSKY COMMISSION GOES NATIONAL! Gerry Parsky must be proud. His much-maligned judge-picking partnership with Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer has hit the big time: a powerful U.S. Senator thinks so highly of it that he’s proposing to extend the Parsky Commission to every state, district and territory in this great land of ours. There’s just one problem: the U.S. Senator who think the Parsky Commission’s are such a fabulous idea is New York’s Charles Schumer – the Senate’s most ferocious opponent of President Bush’s judicial nominees, an ardent liberal who is single-mindedly dedicated to preventing George W. Bush from putting his stamp on the federal judiciary. Here’s what Schumer proposed: “Both the Administration and the Senate should agree to the creation of nominating commissions in every state, the District of Columbia, and each Circuit Court of Appeals. Every commission will consist of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, chosen by the President and the opposition party's Senate leader. Each commission will propose one candidate to fill each vacancy. Barring evidence that any candidate proposed by a commission is unfit for judicial service, the President will nominate the individual and the Senate will confirm her or him.” Ask yourself: If Chuck Schumer wants Bush to surrender his constitutional authority for selecting judges, what does that say about the compatibility between the Parsky Commission and the President’s stated goal of appointing philosophical conservatives to the federal bench? Memo to Gerry: keeping in mind that Chuck Schumer’s goal in life to prevent any conservative from ever being appointed to a federal judgeship, what does it tell you that he has wholeheartedly embraced your judge-picking commission and wants to extend it throughout the nation? Perhaps, Parsky will stop finally fooling himself and admit that he’s hurting the President’s efforts to mold the judiciary and being played for a patsy by Boxer and Feinstein. But we’re not holding our breath.