[xsmommy]

i don't think that a dem is going to shepherd a republican president's judicial nomination, do you ?

[Republican Red]

I don't think that a dem is going to shepherd a republican president's judicial nomination, do you ?

Not at all. That's why I wondered who the Californian Brown (although an Alabama native) would have as her "rabbi". This is the first time I had heard the term. I am not sure this shepherd is the state Senator or someone else?

If the nominee needs a hometown Senator on their side to help the nomination process go smoother than Brown is out.