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On April 24, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown gave a speech in Connecticut, about religion in public life. Congressman Chris Shays was there, and he summarized as follows:

Justice Brown made a very thoughtful presentation speaking to the fact that morality and spiritual values are a basic part of the decision-making process for all of us, including judges. I agree with her.

The Mobile Register has an April 27 editorial on Democratic Senators' efforts to reopen an investigation of Judge William Pryor:

[A]nimus against Bill Pryor has gone beyond the pale. They accused him of being insensitive to women plagued by domestic violence --- but two top Alabama women's shelters endorse Mr. Pryor as a hero. They accused him of insensitivity to civil rights --- but the black, Democratic attorney general of Georgia agreed with Mr. Pryor on the issue in question, and a slew of black, Democratic Alabamians have likewise endorsed his nomination. And on it goes, for every bogus allegation they have thrown Mr. Pryor's way. All have been disproved. All of which makes the threat of a filibuster against him even more objectionable --- and all of which makes their suspiciously timed demand to reopen the RAGA investigation an example of an inexcusable smear job.

This is the sort of despicable performance that the Democratic filibusters protect. And that's reason enough for Republicans, once and for all, to rise up and kill judicial filibusters forever.

Meantime, Hugh Hewitt has an April 26 piece in the Weekly Standard about filibusters. The message: "judges really matter. They really, really matter." So they do.