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CORRESPONDENCE.

American Prospect, The,  August, 2001  

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The Case for Borking

RANDALL KENNEDY IN "THE Case for Borking" [July 2-16, 2001] is right to question the existence of a "golden age" in which judicial selection and decision making were entirely "uncontaminated by politics." Presidential nominations of judges are acts of high political, indeed constitutional, importance, as are Senate responses.

Yet it is too easy to suggest that "everything is politics" when evaluating judges. The ideal judge is an individual who critically examines the facts and law of individual cases without ...

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