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

William Rusher has a good piece in the Decatur Daily Democrat:

[I]t is hard to imagine any future battle more important than the one they [i.e. GOP Senators] are going to wage this spring and summer. If they can't even confirm judges when they have a solid majority, what's the point of electing them at all?

A few Republicans may be concerned about eventually regretting elimination of the filibuster for judicial nominations, but really there should be no regrets. The GOP has never used that tactic to defeat a judicial nomination having clear majority support, and never should do so. It's true that we may one day have more than 50 Democratioc senators and a Democratic president, which may result in some Supreme Court appointments that the GOP doesn't like, but that's the way the system works. At least there will then be a bunch of sitting justices who were appointed by a GOP president and who outlast the Democratic president. It all balances out, and that's the way it ought to be. We shouldn't want all Supreme Court justices to be drawn from a very small pool of homogeneous candidates. If the Supreme Court undergoes shifts in philosophy, that's a good thing, because that way legal precedents will only survive in the long run if they are firmly based upon the objective meaning of the law, rather than being based upon error or flimflam.