Word: estradaã
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...Democrats in the U.S. Senate yesterday successfully blocked Bush nominee Miguel A. Estrada??a 1986 Harvard Law School graduate and, Democrats charge, a “stealth conservative”—from joining a major federal court...
...Crimson’s argument in support of the Senate Democrats’ filibuster of Miguel Estrada??s nomination to the D. C. Court of Appeals is ostensibly in the service of an open nomination process (“The Senate should never confirm a lifetime judicial nomination without first having an idea of that person’s interpretation of the law.”), but it is in fact political (Editorial, “Trashing Estrada,” Feb. 19). “If Estrada is confirmed, other staunch conservative candidates are likely...
...Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against presidential nominations for judicial office, and arguably even with a filibuster, when the nominee does not possess the high qualifications for federal judicial office. Mr. Estrada??s record in the Solicitor General’s Office suggests that he is no ideologue. When high ability and good character are both present in a judicial appointment, the differences in the way judges interpret the law are likely to be reasonable and defensible. When a Democrat next wins...
...women to spout pretentious platitudes on these subjects serves no useful purpose. As has been shown time and again, answers to such questions are not even good predictors of actual judicial performance. Certainly subjecting Estrada to such a sophomoric inquisition is not necessary to assure the Senate of Estrada??s competence. Estrada is a distinguished and successful appellate lawyer, a high-ranking graduate of Harvard Law School, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and a former Assistant to the Solicitor General. He has also been given the highest rating by the American Bar Association...
Many opponents of Estrada??s nomination cite the fact that Estrada is opposed by the Alliance for Justice. Where have these people been all these years? The Alliance is a far-left pressure group that makes its living by whipping up its liberal five- and ten-dollar contributors to oppose any conservative judicial nomination that they can make a fuss about. And here they have decided to take a Republican scalp back home to their membership...