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| 작성자 | 오** | 작성일 | 2009-08-05 | 조회수 | 156 |
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She’ll Fit In Just Fine
Charles Fried teaches contract and constitutional law at Harvard Law School and this year is a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. He was the U.S. solicitor general from 1985 to 1989.
Judge Sotomayor has shown that she is smart, strong, experienced and knowledgeable. She should and will be confirmed.
Tom Korologos, who had been assigned by the Reagan Administration to guide me through my confirmation hearings to be solicitor general, explained to me at the time that for a nominee the purpose of a confirmation hearing is to be confirmed, not — as Judge Robert Bork evidently thought — to engage and best the senators in debate.
On the other hand, Judge Sotomayor has given no evidence that she will change the Court, which is made up of similarly able and knowledgeable people, but has been stuck — like the parties, to a long but not quite happy marriage — in endlessly repeated familiar arguments and in a depressingly predictable pattern of 5-4 splits on the most important uses before them.
Of course, any nominee who had the freshness to point the way out of that wilderness had better give no evidence of it during the hearings, and so there is always room for hope.
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