Comrade Sanders : New SCOTUS nominee is a "progressive"

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“But, between you and me, I think there are some more progressive judges out there,” he added.

When Maddow asked Sanders what he thought about Garland, he said the judge was “probably not the most progressive pick.


There from the horse's mouth.


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In the area of criminal law, for example, Garland’s votes have frequently come down on the side of prosecutors and police. In 2010, when Garland was reported to be under consideration to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein observed that “Judge Garland rarely votes in favor of criminal defendants' appeals of their convictions.”

Likewise, Garland voted in support of the George W. Bush administration’s controversial war on terrorism policies in the Guantanamo detainee case Al Odah v. United States, in which Garland joined the majority opinion holding that enemy combatants held as detainees at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay were not entitled to habeus corpus protections. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately overruled that decision, holding in the landmark caseBoumediene v. Bush that Guantanamo detainees do enjoy habeus corpus rights.

 

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Progressive is an euphemism for socialism or communism.

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I bet liberals just hate when Sanders tells the truth...