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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Something else I wish I had written
Dahlia Lithwick perfectly captures everything I think and believe about the Kabuki theatre that is the upcoming Sotomayor hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Of course, I have agreed to be a guest commentator at ACSBlog this coming week, so I need to find something to say other than "this is a ridiculous charade."
Posted by Howard Wasserman on July 11, 2009 at 03:27 PM in Current Affairs, Howard Wasserman, Law and Politics | Permalink
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"She will say she should have chosen her words better." But why did she same thing a bunch of times? And what words, exactly, should she have chosen?
Posted by: Chris | Jul 11, 2009 10:26:47 PM
"I was trying to make the point that we are all inescapably shaped by our own experiences and that the bench is richer and more responsive when it is staffed by people with diverse life experiences."
Posted by: Andrew Siegel | Jul 12, 2009 11:01:40 AM
I'm not sure changing the locus of evaluation from the individual judge to groups of judges would fit the contexts very well.
Posted by: Chris | Jul 12, 2009 5:49:00 PM
