“We need to do our due diligence, and we need to probably bend over backwards both in appearance and in reality to give the nominee a fair process,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a member of the Judiciary Committee and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee…
“We will all be laughed at — including laughed at by Republican senators — by raising the war cries too loud and too early, when in fact the senators will not deliver what we are promising,” said Manuel Miranda of the Third Branch Network, who organizes regular conference calls of like-minded conservatives about judicial nominations. Instead, he said, conservatives should take a more “modest” and “measured” approach at first…
Judge Garland, who is well known and well regarded in Washington’s political-legal circles, is widely seen by Republicans and Democrats as the safest choice, most likely to draw 85 votes. Judge Wood, who is less known in Washington, would be the favorite of liberals among the top three and has written decisions on abortion and religion that would generate more fire from the right.
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