Federal Judiciary

Open Thread

By AndrewHyman

Back in February 2006, I wrote a Confirmthem post titled "Obama and Biden Denounce Themselves". The subject of that post was their joint admission that filibustering judicial nominations was unwise but they'd keep on doing it anyway. The more things change, the more they remain the same....

At Hugh Hewitt's blog, Donald Kochan provides some perspective: "As Chairman and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joseph Biden set the precedent for intensely political, antagonistic, and activistic opposition to judicial nominations regarding originalist, strict interpretivist, or conservative judges. This was accomplished not only in hearings -- most notably for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas -- but also in ensuring many lower court nominations never received a floor vote."

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Full post as published by ConfirmThem on August 23, 2008 (boomark / email).