The trouble is that the strategy to pick a nominee with no paper trail cuts both ways.
And, call me unreasonably paranoid, but the administration has talked a bigger game than they've delivered on social issues.
If the reliable justices haven't come from Roberts' background. But they haven't.
You are unreasonably paranoid. Too many on this thread are on the fringe. Could we please stop behaving like Pat Buchanan reactionaries? Wait for the freaking confirmation hearings before picking the fly crap out of pepper just because you can.
I think Roberts has to deliver, because of the past record of appointees like Souter. If not, this could have serious electoral conseqences.