Erick Erickson steps out for Dax Lopez, an Obama judicial nominee
For months, President Barack Obama's nomination of Dax Lopez, a DeKalb County state court judge, to a federal judgeship has been frozen in place by protests from local anti-immigration reform activists.
But suddenly, we're spotting some definite signs of movement on Lopez' nomination. One is the very public endorsement that just came from Erick Erickson, the conservative WSB Radio provocateur. Erickson conceded that, prior to his career as a judge, Lopez supported immigration reform. Then the radio host said this:
"He is the least liberal nominee, I think, the president has put on the bench nationwide at a district court position. Members of the conservative Federalist Society have come out in favor of him. A number of Republicans have come out in favor of him. I'm just telling you – you don't go with Dax Lopez, you're going to get some wackadoodle liberal…. "
Erickson urged U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and David Perdue, who need to sign off on the nomination before it comes up for a floor vote, to do just that.
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
