Ooh. Hey. Ted Kennedy has an op-ed piece, Why Roberts’s Views Matter, in the Washington Post today about why it’s so dang important that the Senate be allowed to review data from 16 of the cases that Roberts handled as deputy solicitor general from 1989 to 1993. Predictably, the Empire is trying to withhold this information. Kennedy does an effective job of explaining why the Empire is wrong to do so.
The closing of the piece is particularly powerful:
No one has an automatic right to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court. A nominee to the high court must first demonstrate that he has a core commitment to constitutional rights and liberties. He must show that he is in the mainstream of modern judicial thought and that he would not use an ideologically motivated interpretation of our Constitution or laws to reverse the hard-fought gains we have made to make this nation more just.
Gee, somehow it seems so obvious when it is written out in English words by someone who, no matter what you may think of him, can pronounce “nuclear” properly.
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