"How far out there on the right is Douglas Kmiec?" asks Andrew Sullivan. Kmiec, Dean of the law school at Catholic University, is being talked about as a possible Bush appointee to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Sullivan isn't a fan:

If you're worried about the erosion of the separation between church and state, you should start panicking. If you believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees individual rights against the state rather than, in Kmiec's view, representing Catholic natural law that can mould citizens' souls, then be afraid.

Skip Oliva thinks Sullivan's being paranoid:

The Democratic Party's very existence is a threat to individual rights. Given the option between a conservative Catholic and a band of rabid statists, I'll take my chances with the Catholic.

But, he says "if Kmiec is a Bork-in-waiting, I'll be the first to open fire." Yes. If Kmiec is nominated and an examination of his record ends up revealing that he's Bork II, many of us will be in the unwelcome position of being on the same side as the Alliance for Justice. Ick.



And this former student of Kmiec's says he "makes Scalia look like a liberal." Can you imagine what that confirmation fight would look like?



Kmiec defends himself in a WSJ op-ed: "Judge me by my work, not my faith." Okay, will do.



The delightfully comprehensive Howard Bashman has been following this story here, here, here, here, here, and here.

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