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April 19, 2010

Replacing Justice Stevens

Miami Herald, Miami Herald

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President Obama hasn't named a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens yet, but the stage is already being set for a replay of last year's needlessly contentious confirmation battle over Sonia Sotomayor.

Objection! This isn't necessary.

Judge Sotomayor, a well-qualified federal appeals court judge, eventually won Senate approval, but not before she was put through the proverbial wringer for the sake of politics. Opponents and right-wing activist groups found spurious reasons to vilify her character and disparage her judicial record, to no avail.

The only tangible result of the nastiness was to raise questions about whether confirmation hearings do more harm than good. Yet here we...

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