Detractors:  None yet

 

Blog Posts:  Southern Appeal; InTheAgora   (McConnell is solidly conservative, but not in a partisan manner. He's an intellectual conservative, not a political conservative and that carries much weight with me. He has a long track record of scholarship that will provide plenty of fodder for the various liberal advocacy groups, particularly PAW and Americans United, to oppose him. But ultimately, he is confirmable. He has broad support from legal scholars, including many prominent liberals, and he has proven to be a consistent conservative rather than a partisan one (for example, he publicly opposed the impeachment of Bill Clinton and spoke out strongly against the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision). Given the other potential choices, McConnell is about as good as liberals or libertarians could expect to get as a nominee given the current configuration)

 

Noteworthy cases: Utah Animal Rights Coalition v. Salt Lake City Corp. ( Concurring: "This case is reminiscent of the coroner's verdict in The Wizard of Oz: It's not only merely moot, it's really most sincerely moot.").   Rector v. City and County of Denver (strictly construing the plaintiff's obligation to plead and prove standing in a putative class action);