My extreme long-shot replacement idea for John Paul Stevens is … Mickey Kaus! In one surprise move, Obama would have saved Barbara Boxer from a dark-horse primary threat and confounded all the partisans lining up for the confirmation battle. Having a blogger on the court would bring some kind of diversity, I suppose, and Kaus’ father was a justice on the California Supreme Court.
The best thing? Freddie might even be called in to testify.
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So I did some quick binging (er, googling via bing) and tried to find if Mickey wrote anything about Gonzales v. Raich. It doesn’t look like he has… So, as such, it’s not like Kaus could be worse.
Hell, if he believes in something akin to “free speech means that the government shouldn’t censor political speech”, he may even be better.
Interesting… for someone with a dad who was a Judge, he doesn’t spend a whole lot of time blogging about cases. Kelo doesn’t seem to be mentioned, Raich doesn’t seem to be mentioned…Report
Jaybird, you use Bing? I may have to try it.
Also, I had never realized what the gerund of “to bing” was.Report
@Matthew Schmitz, “binging” is why bing will never, ever, ever come close to Google. I suppose I could say that I “binged” it but…Report
Aside: Officially, all I can hope for is someone who isn’t Ivy League.
I’m rooting for Diane Wood… because, no matter what, we’re going to have a justice who automatically takes the side of The State over the side of The People. Might as well have someone who actually went to a real school.Report
@Jaybird, Personally, I’d like to see someone with a background as a legislator rather than as a judge or as someone with executive branch experience. If we are to get someone who always sides with the State (and we are), then it would be nice to get someone who sides with a different division of the State, if only to gum up the works.Report
@Mark Thompson, I want someone who has worked more with Public Defenders than with Prosecutors. If that ain’t an option, a former legislator/executive might be a pretty sweet workaround.
Nominate Bill Clinton! Seriously, it’s not like he’d be worse than Stevens and he might even be good on a handful of weird and oblique issues.
Just daydreaming about it has me salivating at the thought of the hearings…Report
Oddly enough I have heard a couple mutters about nominating Hillary. But frankly I don’t see an upside for Obama in putting a Clinton in other than making the Republicans seem even crazier than they already look.Report