[CA Conservative]

The fact that he worked for Clinton IS concerning.

Estrada was a career lawyer in the Soliciter General's office, not a political appointee. He also worked in the SG's office during Bush I. And I am sure you would find some things in the briefs he wrote during that time that you would not like. Just keep in mind, it was his job to represent and defend the position of his client, in this case, the Clinton Administration, not to argue his own beliefs and principles.

[votelife]

Ann Coulter supports and knows him. Good enough for me.

[Iconoclast2]

IMHO, there is no class of folks who have done as much damage to the constitution as the government lawyers who have become judges. They seem, as a group, to lack any appreciation of any value to legal limits to government power.

It was Reagan and Nixon "conservative" appointees who, along with the liberals, created judicial rules of judicial review of agency action that have placed federal agencies essentially beyond the rule of law, particularly in "scientific" (environmental) matters. Thus here in the Northwest, we live under bogus Endangered Species Act listings that, for all practical purposes, are immune from judicial review.