Judge Sloop has been a fine jurist.

He's throwing himself at the mercy of this body.

He's addressed it. Now it's time to finish the last four years of his career. He admits that this is wrong.

The echoes of then-Judge Thomas's empty reassurances that he was a mainstream jurist are ringing in the ears of every senator who listened to many nearly identical statements from Judge Roberts last week,

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal.

Art is a mirror of our society and one of its powers.