Where's the passion in the opposition to Roberts?

[JMHACLJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/25/2005 12:53:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jca at stanford.edu writes:

Does any  liberal seriously think this president, with a solid Republican 
Senate  majority, would appoint anyone we could expect more from?  We Democrats  
and liberals should save the all-out attacks for unprincipled or unqualified  
nominees.


As we closed in on the end of this President's first term in office, I  
reviewed the ABA Standing Committee's evaluations of his judicial nominations  for 
the first term.  These evaluations included successful nominations, and  some 
that are still pending after re-submission (because of the "filibuster"  
problem) and withdrawn nominations (Estrada).
 
Despite the Republican majority's previous disinclination to give special  
place to the evaluation of candidates by the Standing Committee, this President  
has shown that he has nothing to fear from such evaluations.  From my  
review, treating the evaluations as a grading opportunity, I concluded that the  
President certainly deserved high marks, perhaps an A or even an A+ based on the  
generally overwhelming number of well-qualified unanimous evaluations and the 
 number of well-qualified/qualified split evaluations.
 
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ
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