TRYING TIMES
When it comes to filling vacancies on the Supreme Court and lower courts, the Democrats have played nice for far too long.
David Faris is the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics, and well as Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt, the co-editor of Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society after 2009, and a regular contributor to The Week. He is associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University in Chicago.