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Left-wing Witch-hunt of the Federalist Society and Judge Roberts David HorowitzThe front page of the New York Times today features a story by Jason De Parle about the Federalist Society's mysterious "sway" in the legal community and what this might portend for the Supreme Court if Judge Roberts is confirmed. The report is inspired by the left's attempt to demonize the Federalist Society and stigmatize Judge Roberts as un-American or – in the actual parlance of the left – anti-woman, anti-black and anti-poor, i.e., a member of the party of Satan. The White House has already caved to this malicious McCarthyite attack on the Federalist Society by attempting to distance its nominee Judge Roberts from membership. Are you now or have you ever been ... Story Continues Below Once you have reached the stage of attempting to avoid the guilt by association that the left's lynch mob is attempting to establish, you are halfway to the stake. Already the White House and its candidate have taken a beating as reward for their appeasement of hatemongers. Judge Roberts has been put in the position of denying that he is a member of the Federalist Society. It turns out he was on one of its steering committees at one time. The Federalist Society is no more conservative than the American Bar Association is left. Or to put it accurately, the Federalist Society is somewhat less conservative than the American Bar Association is left. And it is far less activist. The Federalist Society is principally an intellectual forum where conservatives can discuss with liberals issues that they couldn't discuss in law school venues because the totalitarian intolerance of left-wing law professors who control these schools effectively silenced them by excluding them from its platforms. The fact that the Federalist Society is an issue at all is a testament to how the witch-hunt is the essence of left-wing politics, and how successful that politics is. Imagine if conservatives had made Ruth Bader Ginsburg's leadership role in the ACLU an issue, or her memberhip in the American Bar Association. Or if they had pointed out that Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, for example, sits on august committees and advisory boards of both organizations. If conservatives did that, a hue and cry would go up from the editorial rooms of the Times and the rest of the left-wing media. MCCARTHYISM! WITCH-HUNT! Which is why conservatives don't do it. I respect conservatives' decency, but not when it reaches suicidal proportions. If conservatives are reluctant to examine the records of left-wing ideologues like Ginsburg when they come up for nomination, the least they can do is cry Witch-hunt! and identify the witch-hunters as they attempt to block conservative nominations.
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