Pressed earlier on Court TV, Dershowitz mentioned McConnell as a possibility of a first-rate legal mind (and one other I hadn't heard of and forget). (He trashed both Ediths.) He did freely grant that Roberts is first-class.
Yesterday, Dershowitz was trying to make himself feel better by saying that he thinks Roberts will be another Kennedy....Susan Estrich thinks he will be another John Paul Stevens, who she says is a "moderate".