For nearly six decades, Colorado has tried to tamp down on the kind of partisan politics that shapes the federal court system by using judicial nominating commissions — made up of lawyers and nonlawyers with a mix of party affiliations — to select finalists for vacant judge jobs. The governor then chooses one of those […]
The article is clearly intended to be a damning indictment, but it’s really anything of the sort - so long as the reader is actually familiar with what the GOP has become. The author is arguing in bad faith, and is attempting to further his argument by employing false equivalence.
The whole program is an example of smart bipartisan cooperation and breaking away from national political party platforms.