[cyborg]

Why not? I think she's a good choice.

[DrDeb]

Janice Rogers Brown is going to be very busy soon:

". . . On another matter, TWO OF BUSH'S NOMINEES TO THE D.C. CIRCUIT ARE POISED TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON A PAIR OF CASES INVOLVING CHALLENGES TO THE US MILITARY'S DETENTION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS AT GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA. JANICE ROGERS BROWN AND THOMAS B. GRIFFITH, BOTH JUST PLACED ON THE BENCH LAST MONTH WERE PICKED AT RANDOM TO SIT ON A THREE-JUDGE PANEL THAT WILL HEAR THE CASES THIS FALL.

. . . Bush's district judgeships were rated 28 percent liberal in Carp's study. That put them well to the right of jurists appointed by Presidents Nixon, at 38 percent, and Ford, at 40 percent, and slightly to the right of Reagan and the first President Bush, both of whom were rated 32 percent liberal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050709/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_s_judges

[inquest]

The nation's biggest legal challenge today, however, is shaping our criminal justice system into a tool that can be used to dismantle terrorist networks while leaving our civil liberties intact.

Yes. I'm glad someone else is making that point, because this issue often gets lost in all the hoopla over judges. We need to insist on someone who won't just rubber-stamp all of the administration's WOT measures.