Genius And The Thieves – Eluvium
Harold Maass at The Week asks: Is Obama trying to stack the courts with liberals?
If by ‘stack’ you mean ‘nominate judges to fill vacancies’ – then yes. Yes he is.
The nefarious plot here is that he’s planning to nominate three judges at once for the DC Circuit Appeals Court. Of course, this is a function of the ‘all filibusters all the time’ strategy of the Republicans–which has left some of those seats empty for years. It’s not like he plotted in 2008 to wait until his second term to fill a bunch of seats simultaneously.
Then again, what if he did? We are, after all, talking about the political genius who apparently let US citizens die in a terrorist attack in order to help his presidential campaign. Also, Vince Foster.