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Sunday, September 10, 2006

Secular "scorecards"

The Secular Coalition for America has released its congressional scorecards for the 109th Congress.  Particular for Senators, it seems to me that the scorecards are quite misleading, as they are based on 10 Senate votes, eight of which involved a few selected -- cherry-picked, perhaps -- judicial nominations on which the Democrats stayed together as a caucus.  (So, the Alito vote counts for the "secular" score, but the Roberts vote does not).  This means that some of the more moderate Democrats in the Senate wound up with inflated "secular" scores, while some fairly liberal Republicans would up with deflated ones.  The votes that counted for members of the House are more varied and so, perhaps, more interesting.

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