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Yesterday morning I suggested that Republican senators remind the public of the important link between the issues of national security and judges. I’m glad to see that Sen. Rick Santorum (R – Penn.), in connection with yesterday’s confirmation of Kimberly Moore to the Federal Circuit, made the link in a statement for the record. Here are excerpts from his statement:

It is about time that we get back to confirming judges and I am glad to see that our Leader is putting this issue back on the Senate’s agenda. . . . Just last month, we saw what can happen when an ideologically-driven activist judge attempts to create national security policy. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, a federal district judge in Michigan appointed by President Carter in 1979, ruled that the Terrorist Surveillance Program was unconstitutional. . . . The Washington Post, in an editorial on August 18th, noted that the decision "is neither careful nor scholarly, and it is hard-hitting only in the sense that a bludgeon is hard-hitting." . . . In contrast to Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, both of President Bush’s nominees to the Supreme Court, Justices Roberts and Alito, understand that it is not the role of the judicial branch to make policy.