PLEASE, PLEASE read these excellent blog posts by Ed Whelan at NRO’s Bench Memos. They make a supremely strong case that 5th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Leslie Southwick is being terribly mistreated by Senate Democrats, and that the right should rally around his cause–not least of which because not only is Southwick wonderfully qualified, but because he is a true hero, and this is a fight that, on PR grounds, we can win overwhelmingly if we will only wage it. (Cross posted at Confirm Them.)
