If they do, the president will be forced to pick nonentities and the next Democratic president will complete the liberal politicization of the courts. For over half a century the federal courts, with few exceptions, have busily enacted the liberal cultural and political agenda in defiance of any plausible reading of the Constitution. If they are, by a parity of reasoning, so too were Madison, Washington, Adams, Hamilton and the rest of the Founders. Not bad company. Bush's judicial nominees on the basis that they are conservative.
Political correctness is apparently the new standard to which nominees are to be held.
The panelists themselves are well to the left on constitutional matters. The Supreme Court has moderates but no liberals. Day by day, case by case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize. It is, however, the country the Senate Democrats appear to want. As a member, I can testify that the Federalist Society is barely organized at all.