No question, apparently, but Scott McClellan tossed a comment Les Kinsolving’s way. WorldNetDaily’s take:
The White House implictly welcomed WorldNetDaily’s observation that while many pundits and news organizations are focused on U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ links to the Federalist Society, no such concern was expressed in 1993 about Clinton-choice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s overt activism on behalf of the ACLU.
Asked if he sees a double standard, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said he didn’t follow Ginsburg’s confirmation process.
But he replied wryly to reporter Les Kinsolving, “You’re welcome to point out those things if you so choose.”
The WND article cites a July 27 column by Joseph Farah that attacks Ginsburg as having a “record of extremist political advocacy” for a “subversive, anti-American, anti-Christian organization” (that would be the ACLU).
But Farah isn’t telling the whole story about Ginsburg. She was considered a moderate at the time of her nomination to the Supreme Court, having been recommended to President Clinton by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch as a candidate whom Republicans would approve. Additionally, while serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Ginsburg often voted with conservatives such as Robert Bork, Kenneth Starr and Laurence Silberman; one study showed that in one year of cases that produced a division on the court, Ginsburg voted with Bork 85 percent of the time.
Is that the “record of extremist political advocacy” Farah is talking about?