Extraordinarily Rancid Justices by Paul Loeb

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Below is an excerpt from Paul Loeb's Kos diary.

As the Senate votes in Bush's long-filibustered nominees, the nuclear option compromise is looking more rancid than reasonable. The seven Democrats who helped broker the compromise pledged not to filibuster except in the most extraordinary circumstances. But given the track record of Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor, I wonder how extreme a candidate has to be before these Democrats and their seven Republican colleagues would reject them.

Would a prospective nominee have to be caught wearing white Klan robes to Sunday church? Having public sex with a live animal? Receiving videotaped bribes from Don Corleone? I suppose these actions might meet the "extraordinary circumstances" standard, but running roughshod over legal precedents to favor the wealthy and powerful clearly doesn't.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/9/174138/7460

Regarding Paul Loeb, for anyone who doesn't know who he is:

Website: http://soulofacitizen.org/index.htm

Author of five books on citizen involvement. The History Channel and American Book Association called my political hope book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, their #3 political book for Fall 2004. My earlier Soul of a Citizen sold 85,000 copies.