Interest Groups Prepare to Battle on Sotomayor
(Blog Post)
A Supreme Court nomination, and the interest-group battle begins.
The left was quiet Tuesday. Aside from commending the president’s pick of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, most liberal groups kept their comments to a minimum so that she could hold the spotlight. But privately several acknowledged that they begin this debate with far fewer resources than they could marshal during the Bush administration. Democratic dominance of the White House and ...
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The majority of attacks and criticism I have seen of the judge come not from the left or center, but from the cons and ultra cons pretending to be liberal and saying she is not liberal enough. This has been a hallmark of the slash and burn politics of the last 20 years, or more beginning with a labor leader who turned in his own union member to the house unamerican activities committee and later ran for office based on his high moral standards,