Sen Leahy's obstruction of justice for judges

Quin Hillyer:

Peter Keisler is one of the most accomplished constitutional lawyers in the United States.

A former Yale Law Journal editor, law clerk on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for D.C. and at the Supreme Court, and the acting attorney general of the United States in 2007, Keisler is by all accounts a brilliant scholar-litigator of impeccable judgment.

A moderate conservative, his credentials for a judgeship at the same D.C. Court of Appeals are so strong that even the left-leaning editorial boards of The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have strongly supported his nomination. The American Bar Association review committee, hardly a rubber stamp for conservatives, gave Keisler its highest rating. Unanimously

Yet Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont refuses — without explanation — to allow the panel to vote on Keisler’s nomination. His nomination has been pending an astonishing 623 days — more than 10 times as long as Leahy once said was a reasonable expectation — in a form of perpetual limbo.

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There is much more. It is really too bad Vermont can't succeed from the union and take its ridiculous senators with them. The people there must not be very smart if they keep elected people like Leahy and socialist Berny Sanders. The country would be a wiser and better place without them. Leahy is a man of few inhibitions when it comes to pushing his liberal agenda. He famously leaded classified information to thwart administration policy during the Reagan administration and yet has suffered little for what would have been a criminal offense for normal people. His high handed handling of judicial nominations is a travesty. He has become the rear guard of liberalism.