We must think of a test which sounds fair, and looks fair, and seems fair, and isn’t fair.
Queen Agravain, Once Upon a Mattress
Ann Althouse has a good post up questioning Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s characterization of Justice Clarence Thomas’s legal opinions as “poorly written”:
As Taranto notes, the case Reid cites doesn’t even have a Scalia dissent, so Reid’s answer says something about Reid’s poor reading, but nothing about Thomas’s writing compared to Scalia’s. Maybe he meant to compare Thomas’s dissent to Stevens’s long majority opinion.
I wonder if what Mr. Reid’s claim tells us is what the likely approach to Supreme Court confirmations by Senate Democrats will be: throw out as many claims about the candidate as possible—some legitimate, some bogus.
Fasten your seatbelts, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
