Federal Judiciary

Wash Post and LA Times

By Quin

Readers have been good about posting these editorials, but to make them easier to find and highlight, I promote them to this entry. Both the Washington Post (here) and the LA Times (here) are showing some serious intellectual honesty by blasting Democrats for their obstructionism on judges. Senate GOPers ought to recognize that the time is ripe for them to make a big deal of this, even up to "shutting down the Senate." And, since both the Times and the Post were particularly strong in favor of Peter Keisler, Senate Repubs ought to put the Keisler nomination front and center in their arguments -- followed, as entry 1A, by the Conrad nomination to fix the atrocity of a Fourth Circuit that is missing five of its 15 judges.

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Full post as published by ConfirmThem on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).