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Will Obama's Nominee Get Fair Treatment?
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| Contributor | WA Indy |
| Last Edited | WA Indy May 11, 2009 01:08pm |
| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | May 11, 2009 01:00pm |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- The coming battle over President Obama's first Supreme Court nomination could be an enlightening debate over what direction the court should take. It could also be a nasty and hypocritical fight that obscures more issues than it clarifies. Which will it be?
When George W. Bush was president, Senate Republicans who are now proposing to raise an ideological ruckus said that Democrats were wrong to use judicial philosophy as a benchmark for confirming a nominee. If a president's picks were formally qualified and intelligent -- and both Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito were -- that should be enough, the Republicans said. |
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