Ed Whelan demonstrates just how far off base Democrats and their MSM supporters are when they claim that Democratic obstruction of the president's judicial nominees is merely a continuation of the approach used by Republicans during the Clinton administration. Whelan reminds us that one Clinton appointee

had attacked the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts as organizations that perpetuate stereotyped sex roles and had proposed abolishing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replacing them with a single androgynous Parent’s Day. [That nominee had also] called for an end to single-sex prisons on the theory that if male prisoners are going to return to a community in which men and women function as equal partners, prison is just the place for them to get prepared to deal with women. [The nominee] had opined that a manifest imbalance in the racial composition of an employer’s work force justified court-ordered quotas even in the absence of any intentional discrimination on the part of the employer. But then it was discovered that while operating [her] own office for over a decade in a city that was majority-black, this nominee had never had a single black person among [her] more than 50 hires.

The nominee was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Senate confirmed her appointment to the Supreme Court by a vote of 96-3.

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