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May 25, 2005
Is Ramesh Coming Around?
Yesterday Ramesh Ponnuru had his doubts about the Senate compromise. Maybe, like a lot of us, his views are evolving:
[What makes] Mickey Kaus so sure that public attention to a Supreme Court fight makes a rules change less likely? Maybe it makes the denial of an up-or-down vote less sustainable for the Democrats. In fact, I think that's very likely.
It's likely because of the fact that three (at least) new judges, vilified as "extremist" by the Democrats, will be comfortably installed in their courts. And it seems obvious that although the federal judges were important enough on their own, the real motivation behind this fight concerns the upcoming Supreme Court vacancies. That's why I feel it was so important to get the three judges confirmed. Their confirmation will establishe a vital precedent, and also provide the Republicans with a public relations cudgel of epic proportions.
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