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8/15/08—Today's Wall Street Journal criticizes an American Bar Association resolution, adopted earlier this week, which calls for the use of "bipartisan commissions of lawyers and other leaders, reflecting the diversity of the profession and the community" to recommend nominees to the federal courts. The resolution's objective is "a less contentious judicial selection process," a goal we wholeheartedly support. However, even if one puts aside the quota-like "diversity" requirement, there is good reason to doubt that the recommendations of these commissions would be "bipartisan." click
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8/2/08 — With the Senate now gone for its August vacation and only a month-long session remaining before the election, it's time to start assessing the Democratic majority's performance on judicial nominations in this 110th Congress. The highest marks to go to Sen. Diane Feinstein, who incurred the wrath of liberal civil rights groups when her vote in the Judiciary Committee allowed 5th Circuit nominee Leslie Southwick to reach the Senate floor and be confirmed. It's hard to pick a single low point, but the following events are certainly in the running... click
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7/28/08—“Among the starkest contrasts between John McCain and Barack Obama is the dramatic difference in their promised approaches to judicial appointments, especially to the closely divided Supreme Court.” So begins the cover story in this week’s National Journal, which analyzes what an Obama and McCain Supreme Court would look like... click
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