The Corner

Number Seven

Tomorrow the Senate is scheduled to vote on the nomination of William G. Myers to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Environmental groups (and others) are pulling out all the stops to block his confirmation, so expect Myers to be the seventh successfully filibustered judicial nominee during President Bush’s term. Before President Bush entered office, no lower court judicial nominee had ever been successfullly filibustered in the nation’s history.

Jonathan H. Adler is the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. His books include Business and the Roberts Court and Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane.
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