Stephen
2009-05-01 12:36:02
Perhaps everyone should calm down just a tad. Selecting a justice is one thing. How the justice rules over the long haul quite another: Souter provides an example. Lot’s of good legal talent available for Obama to choose from. Given his inside baseball view of this, you can bet he’s going to choose a very good candidate: one who’s not a mere political hack and one who can go toe to toe with Scalia and others. Anyone who thinks that Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts or Kennedy would be in the least bit intimidated by, or for that matter unwelcoming of, argument from a greater mind than Souter has paid little if any attention to what any of these folks have written or said.
