MAKES SCALIA LOOK LIKE A LIBERAL

“As a student at the Catholic University School of Law I read with great interest your commentary on Doug Kmiec as a potential candidate for a seat on the D.C. Circuit. Having been a student at the Catholic University’s law school for one and a half years under Dean Kmiec’s tutelage, I feel uniquely qualified to offer further insight Kmiec’s particular viewpoint. What troubles me most about the possibility of Judge Kmiec is that he has an abiding inability to divorce his ultra-conservative religious views from his use of garden-variety logic.” – this, and a Democrat defends Trent Lott, on today’s Letters Page.