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Three-piece suits and black robes: business should get serious about judicial appointments.

Publication: National Review
Publication Date: 31-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 1387 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Three-piece suits and black robes: business should get serious about judicial appointments.(The Judiciary)

Article Excerpt
No one predicts anything but bloodshed over the Bush administration's forthcoming judicial appointments, especially to the Supreme Court. Active, energetic business support for embattled, highly qualified nominees would help stiffen wavering senators' backs and break the sure-to-come filibusters. Even so, businessmen continue to maintain their traditional standoffishness on judicial appointments. They haven't realized--yet--that this is nothing less than a gentle form of corporate suicide.

Business sat out the battles over the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas nominations. Its record in recent brawls over appellate judges has been equally lackluster. Judge William Pryor, the former attorney general of Alabama, worked miracles to beat the trial bar in that state by mobilizing support for legislative tort reform and helping get sensible judges elected. He also took a courageous stand against an Alabama supreme court chief justice's insistence on defying federal law governing the display of religious symbols on government property. Religious groups nonetheless strongly supported Pryor's recess appointment to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals--while business groups did not lift a finger.

The reason for their reluctance to get involved is that corporate leaders seem to think that federal judicial appointments are principally about abortion (which the Fortune 500 don't do) or racial quotas (which they like). Commercial cases,...

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