Couple Friday News Items (and a Clip from Casablanca)
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The Washington Times reports today:
Sen. John McCain, in his post-victory debut before the conservative movement's top donors and leaders, will address the Council for National Policy's annual winter meeting here today...."McCain should contrast his approach to Supreme Court appointments with that of Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The Washington Times.
And the Politico had an article on Wednesday titled "Nominations staredown in the Senate". Here's a piece of it:
Asked Tuesday if he was close to a deal to move more nominees, Reid was blunt. “No,” he said. “We’re not close.” Meanwhile, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Republicans are demanding that Democrats push through as many nominees as the GOP did during Bill Clinton’s last year in the White House. The Republican Senate approved 15 Circuit Court nominees in the 1999-2000 session, and the Democratic Congress so far has approved only six.
Six! I can't say I'm "shocked, shocked" that there's partisanship going on here, but the magnitude of it is pretty amazing.
Roberts recused himself from the Pfizer case & Alito from the Exxon case, likely wins for the little guy(which I don't actually have a problem with in these cases, nor the Fedex drivers case), whilst crickets chirped merrily away at Kos & Slate.
STEVENS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SCALIA, J., joined.