If it had not beemn for Specter, Roberts and (other is a conservative) would not be on the Supreme Court. The Dems were set to filibuster those appts. Liebermann and Specter got enough Dems to vote for them—Let’s hope they can overturn Obamacare. Those appts were worth it (I can’t stand Specter , but those appts were very mportant.
“The Dems were set to filibuster those appts.”
That’s what Dems do.
Estrada would eventually have been the first Hispanic to be a SCOTUS justice, imo, if he were allowed an up or down vote (I think it was the D.C. court, and I believe next would have been a SCOTUS appointment).
Some people don’t know how important having a majority in the Senate is, because the majority party controls the Judiciary Committee, and having Constitutional judges, rather than activist judges is so HUGE. Dems have already stacked the country with too many activist judges.