Ants in Antarctica–Stephen Colbert on Judicial Neutrality
July 18, 2009, 7:49 am
Posted by Cathleen Kaveny
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Very incisive. Well done Stephen Colbert!
Brilliant — but why is the best US political discourse on comedy programs?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002179.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
In the meantime, Sotomayor will do, and will do very nicely, as a personification of what ails the American left. She is, as everyone has pointed out, in the mainstream of American liberalism, a stream both intellectually shallow and preoccupied with the past.
From all we know, Sotomayor is no Scalia. She is no Thurgood Marshall, either, or even a John Roberts, who is leading the court in his own direction. She will be confirmed. But if she is not, liberalism will not have lost much of a champion or a thinker. A million lawyers in America and something Jimmy Carter used to say comes to mind: Why not the best?
Warning: clicking on the above link will take you to a Richard Cohen column!