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By Marshall Manson Posted in SCOTUS — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

John has a good post on divisiveness over at his blog focused on rebutting a Boston Globe editorial from Monday. More below the fold.

The Globe feels "conservatives need to cool their (intemperate) rhetoric."

And what about liberals? For example:

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) who said of Judge Priscilla Owen: "This is not a person to put on the bench for a lifetime appointment. This person is wacko! She's wacko!"

Harkin made his remarks shortly after the American Bar Association, by unanimous vote of its committee on federal judicial nominations, had given Owen its highest recommendation:Highly Qualified.

And there's Senator Chuck Schumer (D- NY) who said: "For years, the federal courts served as the shield protecting basic civil rights in this country. This administration wants the courts to become the sword that destroys those rights. And don't think this stops with Judge Pickering. He's just the tip of the iceberg."

John makes a great point. Give the piece a read...