Tories Couldn't Use Committees to Stack the Courts, Anyway
The current debate about the appointment of card-carrying Tories to federal judicial selection committees proceeds on a wrong assumption. These committees are not the proper forum for assessment of the "political correctness" of a judicial candidate. If the government is of a different view, the process is doomed to fail. If the Opposition's only complaint is that the committees may pass those with an "anti-activist" bent, it makes the same mistake.