Shifting the Court, Shifting the Debate
January 27th, 2006 by MaxDavid Boaz at the Cato Institute has done some interesting research on media coverage of the Ginsburg Supreme Court nomination as compared to the Alito nomination.
Remember all those news stories in 1993 about how the nomination of former ACLU lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg to replace conservative Justice Byron White on the United States Supreme Court would “tilt the balance of the court to the left?”
Of course you don’t. Because there weren’t any.
And then he provides the date to back it up.
Ginsburg, who many would say was as “left” and qualified at the time of her nomination as Alito is “right” and qualified now, was approved 96-3 by a Senate with the same number of Republicans (44) as there are Democrats today. Will the Dems do their part to return us to such a dreamy era of harmonious partisan relations when a Supreme Court candidate with obvious and well thought out opinions could pass 96-3?
