Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 30, 2001
JURIST DOCTORING
President George W. Bush's announcement that he no longer will have the American Bar Association evaluate judicial nominees is an outrageous attempt to politicize the federal judicial selection process. Even more disgraceful are reports that the Bush administration instead will use the conservative Federalist Society to screen its nominees. The Senate must stop this effort to move the federal bench dramatically to the right.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
President George W. Bush's announcement that he no longer will have the American Bar Association evaluate judicial nominees is an outrageous attempt to politicize the federal judicial selection process. Even more disgraceful are reports that the Bush administration instead will use the conservati...