TAPpedโs Jeffery Dubner finds it absurd that Republicans complain about the blocking of Bushโs judicial nominees because Senate Republicans blocked and delayed some of Clintonโs. Yet neither Dubner nor his colleagues ever makes mention of the Democratic obstruction of Reagan and Bush I nominees. No, Iโm not just talking about Bork and other defeated nominees. Rather, there are plenty of individuals who were nominated and stalled by the Democratic Senate, including John Roberts and Terrence Boyle, both of whom were first nominated by the first President Bush, and both of whom were refused votes in the Democratic Senate. Itโs great that the Left now believes that โIt is completely unfair to those who want to serve their country to have to wait months or even years without knowing if they will have a job or not.โ Itโs too bad that Senate majorities have not treated nominees of another partyโs President that way for the past 20 years.
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Jonathan H. Adler is a professor at William & Mary Law School.
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