"He looks pretty good to me." He really doesn't of course--he is just another guy who has spent an entire professional career from 1977 on in the public trough. There may have been a few minutes between 1988 and 1991 when he had a real job but I doubt it--he was teaching law until he got the district court appointment in 1990.
He is our guy in the public trough so his confirmation is a plus, however it would be a positive if the politicians could find some commited conservatives out there who have had something to do with the real world for some period in their professional life.
You're right up to a point. He is a lawyer after all, but I can tell you that District Court judges do work. One of the things I thought, though, about the "Independent Judiciary" evaluation was their characterization of his record of support of Virginia’s attempt to ban "certain abortion procedures" as EXTREME. (Of course the evaluation does not describe the the aforementioned "procedures", and would never characterize THEM as extreme.) Then I read the statement that "during the Clinton Administration, the Republican-led Senate obstructed President
Clinton’s efforts to moderate the Fourth Circuit through the
nomination of centrist judges", and I thought that if a man can be known partly through his enemies, then the judge can't be that bad. If they have to resort to lies and half-truths to discredit him, then he is probably ok.
Cordially,