Because it would not be sustained, if the names other than the names I mentioned are nominated, or the Nuke option would pop up. Smart conservative nominees respected for their mind and temperment who do not seem like loose cannons, are not going to be bounced in that way. That is my guess. I could be wrong.
Brown or Luttig.
Ignore the odds for a moment and speculate what affect a
Brown nomination would have on the Court. I think it would release Thomas from his self-imposed embattlement. With, say, Scalia heading the court and young turks Brown and Thomas, both battle scarred and not in the least beholden to to their detractors, I think you would see a flowering of
intellectual conservative jurisprudence. I have read what I could of their opinions and, separately, they are solid and cautious. Together, I see an entirely different dynamic.