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Letter: Don’t play games with appointment
Paul Schroedermeier
Mar. 20, 2016 4:00 am
Holding out a small effigy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia dangling at the end of a stick in place of a carrot, Senators Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst have reached new lows.
Their design to make the presidential election about a Supreme Court seat would likely mightily offend the folks who founded our democracy. By politicizing the judiciary they do a disservice to every citizen of the country.
When judges become political footballs passed and kicked between opposing sides, representative democracy gets tackled in its own end zone.
Paul Schroedermeier
North Liberty
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