Maybe she is a stealth candidate. No paper trail. As soon as she's on the Court, she huddles with Roberts and Thomas and Scalia and they accept another eminent domain case and reverse the prior ruling.
You know the Senate would have ground to a halt if JRB or Priscilla had been appointed. May be able to get her in the door quickly so half the term isn't wasted on Senate insanity.
Well, we'll see. You all can tell me I told you so if Dubya picked a dud here after we see her begin to amass a record on the Court. I can only hope right now.
Please let us have one more pick...a resignation from the left side once they get the drift that it is now a 5-4 majority our way, with no swinging vote left dangling. That may discourage the old lefties to drop by the way side.
I can dream....
"You know the Senate would have ground to a halt if JRB or Priscilla had been appointed. "
You say this like it's a bad thing! :-)
I'm disappointed with this pick ... Edith Jones would have been far better... so would Luttig or Karen Williams.
She's another O'Connor. A politician-lawyer.
phoooey.
No sense dreaming. We had a shot at 4 Thomas/Scalia judges on the courts, and we are not getting them.
The problem with this is that the gang of five who voted for New London and against property rights are still on the court: Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer and Ginsburg. President Bush has just replaced two of the Justices who voted correctly.