The Senate Democrats’ idea of mainstream

Ed Whelan, at NRO’s Bench Memos, demonstrates why Senators Leahy and company do not deserve to be taken seriously as arbiters of which judicial nominees are within the “mainstream.” In 1994, they led the charge to have self-described “flaming liberal” H. Lee Sarokin confirmed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. As a district judge Sarokin had, among other strange leftist rulings, held that the Morristown public library couldn

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