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Before a New Justice is Chosen

By Joe Conason, April 15, 2010

Choosing a Supreme Court justice has become a deplorably dishonest process that hides ideological disputes behind petty and often personal matters. Nominees pretend to have no opinion about controversial issues such as abortion, when everyone listening knows they certainly do. Politicians pretend to worry about nothing except judicial qualifications, temperament and balance.

It is a summer exercise that often descends into ugly insinuations and cheap shots while evading real questions. But perhaps this time will be slightly different, as the president nominates -- and the Senate considers -- a replacement for retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. For once, the nation may confront fundamental differences with a degree of candor.

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Good article that captures the cards as they lay.  Yes, it will be an interesting summer watching fireflies do their dance as the Senate debates the nominations.  If the GOP Senators opposes every nominee and fights it tooth and nail, they will get some nails on themselves.  People have about had it with GOP being the party of "no" - their truth has begun to come out in full colors.