The Sotomayor Pick

Granted, I know that it is impossible to ask for a nominee in any position to be perfect, but can we at least get a Supreme Court nominee that actually understands the role of law?  Is this to much to ask for?

Defending the Indefensible: Cross Post

“The media usually characterize (sic) the practice (waterboarding) as ’simulated drowning’.  That’s incorrect.  To be effective, waterboarding is usually real drowning that simulates death.” – Judge Evan Wallach.

Although Judge Wallach is currently a federal judge in the court of International Trade, he is, at least according to his Wikipedia entry, “one of the nations foremost experts on war crimes and the law of war.”  Most importantly to this posting, his quote is correct.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that waterboarding is “usually real drowning that simulates death.”  But no word in the excerpt is more important than “usually”.