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Wednesday, February 05, 2003
 
The controversy over "stealth nominee" Miguel Estrada and his refusal to provide any information about his jurisprudential views of philosophy makes this quote particularly relevant:

I believe the Senate can and should do what it can to ascertain the jurisprudential views a nominee will bring to the bench in order to prevent the confirmation of those who are likely to be judicial activists. Determining who will become activists is not easy since many of [this President's] nominees tend to have limited paper trails. Nor is there a chemical eye-dropper test we can run which will turn likely activists blue. Determining which of [this President's] nominees will become activists is complicated and it will require the Senate to be more diligent and extensive in its questioning of nominees’ jurisprudential views.

Hmm. Can you guess who said this? Must be some liberal wacko, right? Maybe Schumer? Kennedy? Nope.

This quote is a statement by Senator Orrin G. Hatch before University of Utah Federalist Society chapter on Feb. 18, 1997. How times have changed . . .

- posted by Joshua @ 4:10 PM
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