[Helen]

SHOULD SENATE DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO CONFIRM ALL BUSH SUPREME COURT NOMINEES? REFLECTIONS ON PROFESSOR ACKERMAN’S PROPOSAL

[aristeides]

The proper response to Ackerman's plan is recess appointments. Ideally, they should be much further right-wing than the people Bush is willing to put up for Senate confirmation, to give the DemocRATs an incentive not to block Bush's nominees.

[TLBSHOW]

Well there you have it.........he wrote the play book!

[TLBSHOW]

Don't Panic
Bruce Ackerman
2/7/2002

We do not yet know the extent to which American institutions will successfully expose casual war-talk to sustained critique over the next few years. If all the extreme actions announced by the Bush Administration are upheld in the courts, the downward spiral will have begun in earnest. But it is by no means certain that the judges will turn out to be rubber-stamps. Congress's recent anti-terrorist legislation also sends mixed messages. Though it launches many bad initiatives, it also contains the beginnings of a recognition that a carefully controlled state of emergency may be the best hope for civil liberties in the 21st century.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n03/acke01_.html

[Mo1]

Hmmm ... Interesting .. and Hillary brought this guy in?