There Are No Moderate Supreme Court Nominees

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The Federalist : There Are No Moderate Supreme Court Nominees

If we understand the history of Supreme Court appointments, we can understand that there is really no such thing as a 'moderate' Supreme Court nominee.

By Robert Tracinski MARCH 21, 2016

As expected, President Obama has appointed a supposedly “moderate” and “centrist” nominee for the Supreme Court, which is code for someone with a thin enough record of actual ideas and convictions that nobody can really tell how he would rule on anything.

 

Clearly, Obama is hoping to shame Senate Republicans into confirming his nominee. The idea is to pick someone so unobjectionable that refusing to take up his appointment will seem to be motivated by mere partisan hatred for Obama. And as we all know, partisanship is really bad—when the other side does it.