Well, the rubber will meet the road when Stevens or Ginsberg go. That would have been Roberts was most needed. There really is no one else in his class, for that mission. (McConnell has some of the same qualities, but has written a bit too much as a professor, and in articles, and will be more vulnerable, when it comes to a major ideological tectonic SCOTUS shift moment.) I should have added that apparently Roberts is a person of immense personal charm, which will come through in the hearings. He will just be totally unborkable and demonizable.
Lindsay Graham will vote for Roberts again on FOX
Yup. I've gotten that from my homework, what I haven't gotten is a handle on his judicial philosophy. The pickings are very thin.
Actually, if even Gonzales were nominated then, to replace the uberlibs Stevens or Ginsberg, almost no one would complain with that trade. Roberts is needed to swing a "conservative seat" just a bit more conservative.