http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/001373.php It's a huge blunder that the White House (and perhaps also Judge Roberts) manufactured a controversy where there was none by so forcefully trying to distance the judge from the Federalist Society; as David Bernstein correctly notes on Volokh, being... en-us http://onthewright.blogspot.com/2005/07/those-evil-federalist.html What makes all of this shameful smearing of the Federalist Society even more odious, is the fact that Justice Ginsburg was not only an open lefty, but was the legal representative of the ACLU before becoming a judge on our nations highest court.