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Circuit Judge Troy Bolton Wilkinson urges an HSM approach to judicial appointments

By Douglas A. Berman

The entire Obama family, as detailed here and here, is obviously quite familiar with Disney Channel productions and surely knows well (perhaps even too well) all the musical stylings of Troy and Gabriella and all the East High Wildcats of High School Musical fame.  Thus, I cannot help but speculate that Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III was somehow hoping to tap into the HSM vibe when he put together this op-ed concerning judicial appointments that appears today in the Washington Post.  Specially, the entire Wilkinson op-ed reads like an effort to try to encourage President Obama not to be too ideologically cliquey when making his judicial picks.  (An anti-clique message is, of course, at the heart of the whole HSM message).  And, as the excerpts below reveal, the closing line of the Wilkinson op-ed has now ensured that I will have the closing number of HSM I stuck in my head all afternoon...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).