GOP Payback on Court Nominees Is Hard to Justify

• By Glenn Sugameli
• Special to Roll Call
• Feb. 9, 2009, Midnight

As the Feb. 2 Roll Call article “Judiciary to Test Post-Partisanship” reports, the battle over President Barack Obama’s court picks could go nuclear. The reason some Republican Senators are girding for a fight stems from their perception of how Senate Democrats treated former President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees.