To: Philo-Junius
It was not possible for Reagan to get a died in the wool prolifer through the Senate.
Yes, he could have done a bit better, but he did not deserve the bitter attacks from the radical prolifers who do not play the political game very well.
I recall that the attack was directed primarily, at the time, against Colin Powell, not a SCOTUS appointment.
To: Kansas58
What was Scalia, then?
There was no excuse for O’Connor; he went with her because of her ovaries, not her legal opinions, which are largely nugatory.
166 posted on
03/05/2009 9:35:59 AM PST by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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