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Saturday, Mar 02, 2002

rules of engagement

"If Carp's evaluation is correct, it seems that when a President is - as President Bush is now - forced to deal with a politically divided government, the quality of his judicial appointees may markedly increase. Automatic confirmation may be not a luxury, but a threat; it tends to send the political hacks and ideologues onto the bench, and keep the better jurists off."

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