[relictele]

I’ll take all the sexist/misogynist brickbats....women on the court are too often ruled by emotion and ridiculous worst case hypotheticals and are swayed by such arguments.

[dirtboy]

Wow. We have had exactly one female SCOTUS justice. And she drifted a bit to the left during her tenure. Meanwhile, Souter went full libtard. But you bash O'Conner. Whose dissent in Kelo should be required reading in civics courses.

I am really getting sick of some FReepers trying to draw a line from one point.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Brickbat #1: A Supreme Court justice is not an average of the aggregate qualities of all men as a class, vs all women as a class. A Supreme Court justice should be a highly-qualified individual, above all a competent Constitutional jurist.

Brickbat #2: Bell curves do not apply here.

Brickbat #3: Earl Warren.

Brickbat #4 - #n: William Alsup, Stephen Reinhard, Alfred Goodwin, and the rest of the clowns of the Ninth Circus Court. The number of *men* in the Federal Judiciary ruled by emotion, confident unexamined bias, and supremely dictatorial ideology, would be too long to conveniently list here.

How about selecting judges "not by the the shape of their sexual anatomy, but by the content of their character"?

Radical, I know.

[napscoordinator]

Only 1 woman has been picked by a republican. Reagan of all people, but didn’t he have a democratic senate at the time? He was going to get a top notch candidate like this gem in those situations.

Quite frankly the men have been the flip flopping emotional wreck.