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‘George W. Bush Boots American Bar Association’

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which happens to coincide with the ABA’s latest (but, alas, surely not last) idiocy. Here’s my opening paragraph:

In March 2001, two months into his presidency, George W. Bush decided to exclude the American Bar Association from its privileged role in evaluating candidates for federal judgeships before they were nominated. Joe Biden and other Senate Democrats blasted Bush’s decision. But when he became president twenty years later, Biden would make the same decision.

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Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.
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