Republicans , Democrats and Equal Protection
Nat Hentoff has a new column in the Village Voice on lack of commitment to the constitutional principle of equal protection. He says that Democrats need to do more than object to Bush's extremist nominees.
Moreover, since George W. Bush is very likely to name the next chief justice of the Supreme Court as well as one or two other replacements before the end of his second term, it is crucial for leaders of the Democratic Party, including future presidential aspirants, to do more than obstruct Bush's nominees. The Democrats have to tell the country what their criteria are for the Supreme Court and other life-tenured federal judges—instead of mechanically objecting to nominees for being "out of the mainstream."
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