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

[John J. Urbaniak]

I think the poison began with Bork and continued through Clarence Thomas.

John


Mitch Stone wrote:

> 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.
>
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