Reply #2: Clearly Schumer does not get it - it is not about whether you

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can win elections. It is about people's life. Playing politics with that is bad.

Still, Democrats vowed to make an issue of Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts's decisions in elections this fall and beyond. "We will be watching our two newest justices," Senator Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said in a speech before the vote.

"Make no mistake, we will make sure the American people understand the implications of these votes today," Mr. Schumer said. "Elections may have consequences, Mr. President, but votes like these also have consequences for future elections."