That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which begins:
“I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor’s testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified. How could someone who has been on the bench for seventeen years possibly believe that judging in hard cases involves no more than applying the law to the facts?”
That was liberal law professor Louis Michael Seidman’s blunt condemnation of Sotomayor’s account of her judicial philosophy at her confirmation hearing.