THE PLANK MARCH 14, 2007
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In a (pretty feeble) defense of Alberto Gonzales, David Frum notes a fringe benefit for Democrats in the current US Attorney scandal: Even if he stays, Gonzales is probably toast as a Supreme Court nominee. Whereas until now he would've been a tough pick for many Democrats to oppose.
--Michael Crowley
5 comments
This was the torture guy! How would he have been hard to oppose? The guy wouldn'tve gotten through the Democratic senate if he greased himself up and shot himself through a slingshot
- egibson
March 14, 2007 at 12:56pm
He would've been the most Roe-friendly justice possible under Bush.
- bduker6
March 14, 2007 at 1:27pm
The Right has long made it clear that Gonzales had absolutely no chance of getting a Supreme Court nod: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid= 19151 After what they did to Miers, it is almost impossible to imagine that President Bush would have tried to pass off Gonzales as acceptable to the Right.
- pfawlibrary
March 14, 2007 at 2:21pm
what kind of nominee Bush
- WayneJM
March 14, 2007 at 3:47pm
It's hard to imagine at this point what kind of nominee that Bush would put forward for confirmation by a Democratic-dominated Senate. The right doesn't really have a lot of leverage anymore, and the Republicans can't threaten the "nuclear option" as a means of ramrodding an extremist nominee through the Senate. Probably someone along the lines of an Alito wouldn't even make it out of committee. That said, one hopes that the situation doesn't arise in the next 22 months.
- WayneJM
March 14, 2007 at 3:51pm