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How the Judicial Confirmation Crisis Threatens Our Constitution

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a Huffington Post essay by Caroline Fredrickson.  LINK  She's the Executive Director of the American Constitution Society.  Here's an extended excerpt:The Senate voted Monday to confirm Jane Branstetter Stranch to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, at long last filling a seat on one of our nation's most important courts that had been vacant for two-and-a-half years. This inexcusable delay in Stranch's confirmation highlights a growing problem that undermines the very spirit of the U.S. Constitution, whose 223rd anniversary we celebrate this week.What makes the holdup of this nomination particularly distressing is that Stranch is exceedingly qualified for the job and had bipartisan support from the time of her nomination more than a year ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).