A reader notes:

Jonah,
Keep the following in mind regarding Frederica Massiah-Jackson.
She was sponsored by Pa. Senator Arlen Specter, hardly a stalwart conservative.
Her nomination was pulled only after a tremendous outcry by Pa. prosecutors because she had a very obvious pro-defendant bias in criminal cases which was very well documented.
Absent this outcry, I hardly think she would have otherwise been regarded as “too liberal.”