Who is Kurt Waldheim going to endorse?
The Senate Judiciary Committee has decided to give Reagan nominees to the federal courts a hard time, starting with Jefferson B. Sessions and Daniel A. Manion. Sessions was quashed because of some rude remarks he was found to have made; Manion is being attacked for, among other things, his poor spelling. All of a sudden it’s occurred to the Democrats that, as Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware puts it, “the nation has a right to expect more than minimum qualifications and probable fitness from its federal judges.” The alleged higher standards really amount to a double standard. “I think you are a decent and honorable man,” Biden told Manion, “but I do not think I can vote for you because of your political views.” Which seems to be the relevant standard.
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