Democrats have been aggressively shutting down the process already. The majority, with direct control over hearings and votes, will provide new weapons for this obstruction campaign. The whole point of this, of course, is that Democrats want appointed judges who will produce liberal results even if they have to trash the law to do it. Come to think of it, that's exactly what Democrats are now doing to the judicial selection process. Tom Jipping is director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Law and Democracy.
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