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I am not sure why you said she is a "flaming liberal"... she is actually considered pretty centrist.
Just FYI: She was also considered by George Bush...
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There are 100 names that are "considered" in order to make one group or another happy during this process. Don't delude yourself into thinking she actually stood a chance with Dubya.
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While working for the famed Robert Morgenthau in the New York District Attorney's office in the early 1980s, she described herself as a "liberal.??
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Also has drawn criticism for saying in 2005: ?All of the legal defense funds out there they're looking for people with court of appeals experience because it is-- court of appeals is where policy is made." She tried to backtrack, but conservatives are already rallying to defeat her based on this.
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I think the "where policy is made" quote is key here, because hopefully we'll have a debate in this country about what the role of the judiciary is.
It's a co-equal branch of government, not a rubber stamp for congress that the conservatives have tried to say it should be the past 25+ years.
I think that, among many other good reasons, this is one of the key reasons she was picked. Not in spite of that quote but because of it.
The same way that it wasn't a mistake that Obama threw the word "empathy" out there at the beginning of this process and conservatives went into a frenzy over it.