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How Dahlia Litwick would like you to think about Supreme Court appointments: liberal = moderate, conservative = extreme.
Dahlia Lithwick has this new piece about the kind of Justices we might expect Barack Obama to appoint to U.S. Supreme Court: The prospect of a liberal slot on the court being filled by a liberal president has some liberals dreaming big—as was evidenced in a piece last weekend, by Adam Liptak , ...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... Meanwhile, for your Friday comedy fix, Ann Althouse says that "I can't help thinking Lithwick is running interference for some very liberal nominee to come. She has a strategy to portray that person as actually a moderate, someone to whom fair-minded conservatives should not object." Given that Lithwick is being completely explicit about the distinction between more and less moderate liberals, this makes no sense. But you may remember Althouse's ( ...

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