What Are Your Politics?

There's always this great srat during the confirmation hearings, where we pretend that these are not political decisions. And so we try to find some personal flaw in the nominee. In the case of cavanagh, who is a repulsive character, no question about it, but he's an appalling person politically. So once we give up the talk about the neutrality of jurists, even though we've gone to war to the death to decide which jurist get on the bench, m i think we'll be doing something just for honesty's sake"