{"id":88685,"date":"2013-04-11T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88685"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:33:59","slug":"voices-of-the-crust-speak-but-to-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88685","title":{"rendered":"Voices of the Crust Speak But to Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/04\/newspaper-without-scruples.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCourts Without Judges\u201d reads the headline of an attack on Senate Republicans by the New York Times editorial board. Bemoaning the fact that there 85 vacancies in the federal judiciary, the Times asserts that \u201cby far the most important cause of this unfortunate state of affairs is the determination of Senate Republicans, for reasons of politics, ideology and spite, to confirm as few of President Obama\u2019s judicial choices as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, as Ed Whelan points out, in the second-to-last paragraph of the editorial we learn that \u201c62 district and circuit court vacancies have no nominees.\u201d Thus, the cause of three-quarters of the 85 vacancies is that President Obama hasn\u2019t made nominations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Democrats do exactly the same thing to Republican Presidential nominees (Judge Bork, are you listening?), but that somehow never seems to make it into the papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. \u201cCourts Without Judges\u201d reads the headline of an attack on Senate Republicans by the New York Times editorial board. Bemoaning the fact that there 85 vacancies in the federal judiciary, the Times asserts that \u201cby far the most important cause of this unfortunate state of affairs is the determination of Senate Republicans, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408504,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88685\/revisions\/408504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}