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By Lorie Byrd Posted in Analysis and Predictions — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Betsy Newmark points to Charles Krauthammer's article about what should really be at issue in the battle over judges (not what they have decided, but how it was decided) and makes an excellent point about how miserably journalists have been reporting this story:

The dishonest thing is that most of these politicians who are hurling accusations at these judges are lawyers. They know better. But they are willing to take a small part of a decision out of context and then accuse a judge they don't like of extreme views "out of the mainstream." Such dishonesty is disheartening, but not unprecedented in our nation's history. If we truly had a disinterested press, it would be their job to throw some light on what these judges have actually written instead of just pasting in opposing quotes like the debate was some tennis match with no way of finding out the essence of what these judges have argued.