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January 13, 2006
Cutting Through The Hysterical Miasma
Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters reports on the testimony by Judge Alito's peers in support of his nomination. In cutting through the hysterical miasma emanating from the Democratic members of the judicial committee, Judge Ruggeri Aldisert, who was appointed by Lyndon Johnson, said the following (emphasis mine):
I speak now as the most senior judge on the 3rd circuit. [...]And as the chairman indicated, Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania was my chief sponsor when President Lyndon Johnson nominated me to the Court of Appeals, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy from New York was one of my key supporters.
Now, why do I say this? I make this as a point that political loyalties become irrelevant when I became a judge.
Judicial independence is simply incompatible with political loyalties, and Judge Alito's judicial record on our court bears witness to this fundamental truth.
I have been a judge for 45 of my 86 years. And based on my experience, I can represent to this committee that Judge Alito has to be included among the first rank of the 44 judges with whom I have served on the 3rd Circuit, and including another 50 judges on five other courts of appeals on which I have sat since taking senior status.
And there's an end on't.
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