I'M SHOCKED, SHOCKED! - AT 3:12 P.M. ET:  Well, what do you know?  The New York Times has discovered what we've known for years - that the American Bar Association's ratings of judicial nominees are tilted toward liberals: 

...a series of studies have found indications that liberal nominees do better in the process than conservative ones. The latest, to be presented next month at the Midwest Political Science Association, found evidence consistent with ideological bias.

“Holding all other factors constant,” the study found, “those nominations submitted by a Democratic president were significantly more likely to receive higher A.B.A. ratings than nominations submitted by a Republican president.”

COMMENT:  I never would have known.

March 30, 2009