The same day his nomination was announced, I outlined basic evidence showing that Seventh Circuit nominee David F. Hamilton is not the “moderate” that the Obama administration is trying to sell him as. The abortion-advocacy group now using the moniker NARAL Pro-Choice America evidently agrees, as it’s sending around an e-mail (a copy of which a recipient has forwarded to me) in which NARAL’s president solicits funds for its efforts to “help confirm two of President Obama’s nominees: Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services and David Hamilton for a critical federal judgeship.”
Given Hamilton’s extraordinary seven-year-long series of rulings obstructing Indiana’s implementation of its law providing for informed consent on abortion, NARAL’s support is no surprise. And if NARAL needed any further assurances about Hamilton, I’m sure that its folks would have learned what they needed to from Hamilton’s sister-in-law, OLC nominee (and abortion radical) Dawn Johnsen.