It is quite natural for all of us to be absorbed in our own politics at the moment given the extraordinary events of this week, and those perhaps yet to come, but it's worth keeping an eye on events in the USA as the attention given to Obama's Supreme Court nominee continues to escalate.
In an interestingly open move, Newt Gingrich admits in his latest column that he shouldn't have called her a racist. He goes on to discuss her merits in more measured terms and I for one find the arguments he makes quite strong, to wit her position vis a vis race undermines judicial impartiality and that
No group has needed or continues to need justice -- that can’t be predetermined by wealth or privilege -- as much as the less privileged. President Obama doesn’t seem to grasp that, by weakening judges’ adherence to the rule of law, he is also weakening the very foundation of equal justice for the less fortunate Americans he wants to help.
It really is worth reading the whole thing.
