In this excellent house editorial today, the Washington Post tells Senate Democrats, “It’s time to stop playing games with judicial nominees.” Democratic senators, the Post urges, “should at least give every current nominee an up-or-down vote and expeditiously process the nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, where five of the court’s 15 seats are vacant.”

Among the “[m]any” nominees who “no doubt warrant confirmation,” the Post praises as “particularly worthy” the nominations of Peter Keisler to the D.C. Circuit and of Rod Rosenstein to the Fourth Circuit. On Keisler: “It is a travesty that he has yet to get a vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee,” and he “should be confirmed forthwith.” On Rosenstein: He is “unquestionably well qualified” and “has all the makings of an excellent and principled judge,” and the claim by Maryland’s senators that he lacks “roots” in Maryland is “preposterous”.

(As I discussed here, the Los Angeles Times had a similar editorial on Saturday.)