In his 22 years in the Senate, John McCain has never voted against a single Republican judicial nominee at any level. How far to the right does a judicial pick have to be for John McCain to vote against him or her?

Why would John McCain tout his so-called "moderate" views on issues like campaign finance reform and climate change when the right wing judicial nominees he favors would gut those reforms and dismantle the regulatory framework designed to implement them?

John McCain often cites John Roberts and Samuel Alito as examples of the types of judges he would appoint to the Supreme Court. Would he also appoint extremist judges like Robert Bork, William Pryor and Pricilla Owen to the Supreme Court?

Environmentalists Wary of McCain's Appointments To The Supreme Court. Joseph Romm, former top Energy Department efficiency and renewable energy official said that environmentalists worry that McCain's appointments to the Supreme Court would be extremely conservative. They worry that conservative judges "would overturn last year's landmark 5-4 ruling -- in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency -- that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide under existing laws. 'We will have a devil of a time getting serious action on global warming if the Supreme Court reverses its position,' says Romm." [Business Week Online, 4/22/08]

McCain Was Key Negotiator In Deal That Lead To Confirmations Of Ultra-Conservative Judges Owen and Pryor. "The deal, which was finalized in McCain's office after a weekend of back-and-forth discussions between Byrd and Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), would put an end to three filibusters and allow votes on three appellate court nominees: Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor." [Chicago Tribune, 5/24/2005]

Pryor Called Abortions "An Abomination" And Said Overturning Sodomy Laws Would Lead To "Necrophilia" And "Pedophilia." "But he scandalized many Democrats and proponents of a centrist Supreme Court by calling the 1973 Roe decision legalizing abortions nationwide an abomination. He has also said that when the Supreme Court overturned state sodomy laws used against gays, it gave the green light to "necrophilia" and even "pedophilia" so long as the child was deemed "willing."" [Chicago Tribune, 5/1/2005]

Even Alberto Gonzalez Blasted Owen's "Unconscionable Act Of Judicial Activism." "Owen's opponents have made much over her opinion in a 2000 case involving a Texas law that requires girls to notify their parents before they have an abortion, unless a court finds she's "sufficiently well-informed" and "mature." .Of Owen's dissent, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who was then on the court, wrote that "to create hurdles that simply are not to be found in the words of the statute would be an unconscionable act of judicial activism."" [St. Petersburg Times, 5/22/05]

Bork Criticized "One Man, One Vote" As Counter to the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1971, he said that "the principle of 'one man, one vote' runs counter to the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, the history surrounding its adoption and ratification, and the political practice of Americans from colonial times up to the day the court invented the new formula."" [Washington Post, 7/2/1987]

McCain Voted To Confirm Bork As An Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court. McCain supported the confirmation of the nomination of Robert H. Bork to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. [1987 Senate Vote 348, 10/23/1987]