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...School (HLS), has never served as a judge, has not written any substantive articles or publications that demonstrate his philosophical leanings and has failed to express many of his views publicly. The Democrats have been denied access to Estrada’s legal memos, which he wrote as assistant solicitor general and offer his views on Supreme Court cases. And he has dodged even the most general questions posed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. For example, he would not say with which Supreme Court opinions he disagreed. The D.C. circuit court is widely viewed as second only in importance...
...Miguel A. Estrada give as their reason that Estrada would not answer questions about how he would decide cases that came before him, would not criticize Supreme Court precedents and that the Department of Justice would not release drafts of confidential memoranda he wrote as an assistant to the Solicitor General in both Republican and Democrat administrations. This position is untenable...
Although on its editorial page The New York Times cheers on the Democrat filibuster, in its own news pages it has reported that every living Solicitor General, Republican and Democrat, has signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee stating that the release of their staff’s confidential memorandum to the Solicitor General would be unprecedented and severely damaging to the professionalism and efficacy of the office. The Times has also reported that the unsubstantiated canard being floated by one disgruntled and partisan former colleague criticizing the quality of Estrada’s work in the Solicitor?...
...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. What the Senate Democrats regret is that they have been deprived of the opportunity to pick over the transcripts of such discussions for choice tidbits that they can take out of context and twist to partisan...
Charles Fried is Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was U.S. Solicitor General...