Sonia Sotomayor appears to be limping to confirmation. Commentary Magazine collects some of the underwhelming reviews.
We must still return to the “why” — the puzzle as to why a liberal president, selecting a liberal justice with 60 Democrats in the Senate, has sent up a nominee to spout judicial conservatism.
Is this not the judicial equivalent of a presidential campaign?
ReplyDeleteYou shift the rudder to the right, acquire the position, and then return the normal hard left rudder.
Truth evasion maneuvers look like that.