[Am-info] Do you think Kottar-Kelley will delay ruling until a Democrat is president?

[Mitch Stone]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11JUDGES.html

Obstruction of Judges

By JEFFREY ROSEN

Allen Snyder and John Roberts are two of the most respected appellate 
lawyers in Washington. They were at the top of their classes at Harvard 
Law School, and they went on to clerk for Justice William Rehnquist on the 
Supreme Court. Both ended up at the glamorous law firm Hogan & Hartson, 
where they became partners as well as friends, advising each other about 
ethical issues and preparing each other for arguments before the Supreme 
Court. In recognition of their exceptional talents, they were nominated by 
the president to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia Circuit, widely viewed as the second most important court in the 
nation.

Roberts, a Republican, was nominated by the first President Bush; Snyder, 
a Democrat, was nominated by President Clinton. But neither nominee made 
it through the Senate, and together they stand as examples -- call them 
exhibits A and B -- of a crisis that has paralyzed the judicial nomination 
process for more than a decade.