Top Republican Lawyer Decries Partisan SCOTUS Confirmation Process

A respected voice in conservative circles calls for a truce on Supreme Court nominations.

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The relentless partisan warfare over Supreme Court appointments, including the latest manifestation involving Judge Merrick Garland, is disheartening, damaging to the court and corrosive to civil discourse.

— Former Solicitor General Ted Olson, writing in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. Olson’s vision for a repaired Supreme Court process requires Democrats to agree to vote for future jurists in the mold of Justice Alito. And it’s not stacking the deck at all to suggest that Alito and Garland represent equal, radical poles on the ideological spectrum.

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