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Choosing the Next Justice

BY MICKEY EDWARDS

  Reprinted from Politico.com

Given the increased focus on, and increased fealty to, one’s political party as an overriding factor in the decision-making process, it is highly likely that every Democratic member of the Senate will feel a strong sense of obligation to confirm the Supreme Court nominee of a Democratic President. 

Add the fact that many members of the Senate, as confused about a Senator’s duties as are most journalists and private citizens, will assume that a President is entitled to have his nominees confirmed absent some overriding disqualification, and the path to Kagan’s confirmation would seem reasonably obstacle-free. 

Republicans would love to have a reason to show that Kagan is a tool of some great socialist plot to undermine democratic values, but they’ve played that card to death and might actually long for a breather from that unending war.  Which suggests that the Solicitor General might want to go shopping for some classy-looking black robes.

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