[conservativepoet]

Did Renquist have judicial experience?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

William Rehnquist was a clerk for Robert Jackson, a man who was the United States Prosecutor for war crimes at Nuremberg, an outstanding Attorney and Solicitor General, and an accomplished justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

What part of her curriculum vitae measures up to that?

[mwl1]

Your point is correct. Rehnquist had no judicial experience when Nixon plucked him from the Justice Dept. And certainly Rehnquist turned out just fine.

My own sense of this is that conservatives were really spoiling for a fight, wanted to rub the RATS' nose in the dogdirt, and ultimately go nuclear. However, Bush wants results -- getting a strict constructionist confirmed without having to use a lot of political capital.

I am feeling much better about this nominee, just wish she were younger.