Judicial nominations or desperate politics?
New York Times editorial today has lambasted President Bush’s choices for judicial nominations as “archconservative and underqualified”.
This, apart from the ideological, speaks also of the dangerous apathy being exercised by the president in wake of the recent results that clearly demonstrate popular expressions that are liberal, at the very least.
NYT says:
The four most controversial nominees that President Bush resubmitted are ideological in the extreme. William Myers III, a longtime lobbyist for mining and timber interests, would no doubt use his position on the San Francisco-based United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to gut environmental laws. William Haynes II, who helped develop the administration’s torture and “enemy combatant” policies as the top lawyer for the Pentagon, could be counted on to undermine both civil liberties and reasonable limits on executive power.
Critical takes on the four nominees Haynes, Boyle, Meyers and Wallace had been also done by the TalkLeft blog in the past.
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