Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has given her resignation, and President Bush is soon to nominate a replacement. Nominees who act with restraint, interpreting law rather than making law, and who follow the Constitution and laws of the United States, as intended by the founders and framers, deserve a fair vote.

Liberals on the Senate Judiciary Committee are making the usual demands for a “centrist” nominee, which is to say, someone who passes the pro-abortion litmus test. A litmus test is a good thing, and I think the president should use one in making his choice.

But I believe that it is not the place of the minority party to tell the president what he must do and threaten “to go to war” against his nominees.

JoAn Karkos, Lewiston