Robert George
Robert George
choice consent event left
The circumstances of the event left Mr. McCowen with no choice but to give the DNA, which made his consent involuntary under the law.
audience hearings hit home interested looking main seems stands upright
The main audience is the public, and what it's fundamentally interested in is looking at a nominee, sizing him up. And that's what hearings do: see if he stands up under fire, see if seems like a decent, intelligent, upright person. He seems to have hit a home run.
activist base behaved explains liberal needed side
They needed to show their base and activist organizations on the liberal side that they were true-blue, and that explains how they behaved as they did.
afraid violated
Afraid that he would be violated on his probation if he refused, McCowen reluctantly agreed.
blow expect indicate justices liberal losers opinion reason themselves
The reason I would expect a concurrence from the liberal justices would be to kind of soften the blow for the losers to indicate ... that they themselves interpreted the opinion narrowly.