OMG. Did you all catch that one?
"Who will inspire your decisions? The Federalist Society or Sandra Day O'Conner?"
Both sidea are going to be crafting soundbites to appease their constituents. The rabid left can count on Durbin, Schumer, Kennedy, Kerry, and Boxer for their part.
Good on Brownback, to dispute DEM accusations re: "no cases on civil rights" with a summary of 4 caes that Alito DID rule in, where the issue was civil rights ;-)
Facts are fun. And they are free!
Durbin's saying that he wants judges who will advance a specific agenda--his own, in his statements, of "expanding freedoms". He tried this same line on Roberts and got immediately shot down.