Federal Judiciary

Miranda Discusses Whether McCain Would be Okay on Judges

By AndrewHyman

I got an email from Manny Miranda today, talking about how a President John McCain would do on judicial nominations. Some of you may recall that Manny played a big role as a Senate aide, and thereafter, on the judges issue. Recently, he's been working for the State Department in Iraq. Here's a big snippet from his email today (which he also sent to various other people):

You and I know the importance of the judge issue. As Senator Jeff Sessions once told me, "Nobody polls on it, but it's what everyone wants to talk about back home." We need to make sure that a Republican president understands this issue without wavering and without any populist tendencies. Mitt Romney does not give us that comfort. Certainly, John McCain is not a culture warrior and yet he has been solidly pro-life in his voting record and firm in his understanding that the issue of abortion should be returned to the States, just as Justice Scalia does. For example, see here. Mitt Romney's record is not similarly comforting....MORE BELOW THE FOLD

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Full post as published by ConfirmThem on January 05, 2008 (boomark / email).

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