Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Pickerings common enemies

Jay Nordlinger:

So, Judge Charles Pickering is retiring from the bench, reminding us — reminding me — of one of the most disgraceful episodes in modern Democratic history: the tarring of Pickering as a racist to prevent his rise in our judiciary. Bob Bork, Miguel Estrada, Pickering — there is something about judges that brings out the worst in Democrats.

I won't refight this battle, except to recall what is probably my favorite line of this decade so far. As the Pickering attacks were taking place, Charles Evers, brother of the murdered civil-rights hero Medgar Evers, had this to say, from Mississippi, where both Pickering and Evers are from: "The NAACP and the Klan are the only two organizations that are against him down here."