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br> -- Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p>

Coincidentally, just a day or so before Chief Justice John Roberts suffered his seizure, Senator Charles Schumer was railing against the conservative cast of the Supreme Court. One of the talk-radio hosts played some clips of Senator Schumer's remarks. I was doing something that involved power tools at the time, but I thought I heard the Senator state that he regretted not taking a stronger opposition to Roberts's appointment, that he wished he'd "twisted a few more arms."

Could somebody check that out. Did the Senator really say that? Would "arm-twisting" be considered a violation of the Geneva Convention of torture? Senator John McCain had his arms "twisted" while in the Hanoi Hilton and still can't comb his own hair. Is that what Senator Schumer was talking about? Or was it another kind of arm-twisting?

p>You guys at The American Spectator have a lot of connections. Could you look into this, please? br> -- Jed Skillman br> Winfield, Illinois /p> p> Editor's note:

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