Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III: Storming the 4th Circuit

The Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th Circuit has this commentary in the Washington Post:

. . .  With four vacancies on our 15-member court, the 4th Circuit may be the best game in town. With the new numbers in the Senate, the temptation is there to go for an ideological makeover.

Yet the tempting course would prove a misguided one . . .

Wherever wisdom resides, it does not lie with the ideologues; activism of all persuasions is a trade best practiced away from the bench . . .