Unfortunately it's against the rules of judicial ethics to prejudge any issue, this whole business of turning the courts intop another political branch is doing great damage to our country.
IMO either let legislatures decide or ammend the constitution, this living breathing concept is disasterous as we know.
I hate the whole living breathing thing too... but until something is done to change it we gotta play the game with the rules the way they are whether we like them or not.
What good does it do us to fight to confirm this guy ... only to find out AFTER he is a USSCJ that he is pro choice?
On the surface it looks like Bush has oursmarted the dems once again... but that is only true if this guy is a real conservative.... if he's a souter... we're screwed.