I read somewhere that the justice he really admires was the justice her clerked for at the circuit court level. This was according to his roomate that he lived with in D.C for a long time. The washington post had something about it today.
At Harvard law school they had a renquist club and he wasn't even a member of it so it wasn't that he was a huge admirer of renquist it was more a matter of convienence.
I don't see him as conservatively ideological. He seems a very middle of the road type of justice. I think he has integrity and won't rule on cases based on international law but I don't nescessarily think he will be in the voting bloc with renquist, scalia, and thomas all the time and that is what we really needed. He'll probably be like O'Connor on states rights issues and on business issues and a slight notch better than her on the hot button conservative social issues.
Not sure where you get that from. I think he'll be a vast improvement over O'Connor. But even if he is what you think that is good enough for me. I don't care much for "hot button conservative social issues." It bothers me more that the Government can take my home then that Roe v Wade is the law of the land. Although I disagree with them both.