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January 23, 2009

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What's especially telling is his last paragraph - referring to a "polarized" Fourth Circuit. In other words, the problem is that Obama might actually put some liberal judges on the bench. The fact that liberal judges might be just as capable of putting aside their ideology as he claims to be doesn't seem to occur to Wilkinson.

Why does anyone think he'll be ABLE to put more liberal candidates on the 4th Circuit bench?

Who thinks he even wants to?

He'll be constrained in his nominations by the 'necessity' of not causing any--or at least the barest minimum--unruliness or dissent from the Right (fuck the Left, but you knew that already)...

A close relative of mine worked for the 4th circuit for many years in the 80s and 90s. Said person told me s/he had to be very careful not to reveal their lifelong Democrat registration. I can only imagine the atmosphere now; half the judges are probably fantasizing about riding into battle against the Northern interlopers.

(The atmospherics are telling: there are giant statues of Confederate generals, all facing north, in many of Richmond's major intersections, while the 4th Circuit's courthouse is as magnificent a pile of antebellum marble as you'll ever hope to see.)

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