[flashbunny]

"She is untainted by black robe fever."

uh, if she is confirmed, she will be subject to the same fever.

Better to have someone who has been a judge that we can tell is immune to it, then to put someone on the bench who may fall victim to it.

[Vision Thing]

Better to have someone who has been a judge that we can tell is immune to it (black robe fever), then to put someone on the bench who may fall victim to it.

JLS made this intesting point on another thread:

A thread that goes through Bush's two appointments to SCOTUS is they currently live in DC. His reasoning might well be, if they were likely to go native, they would have by now. This more than anything else has been the GOP problem with SCOTUS appointments, people from Arizona, Minnesota, New Hampshire, even Boston going native when the start working inside the beltway.

[longtermmemmory]

I have been in front of both types, the REAL test is whether the person worked in the real world.

First time judge is irrelevant. NOBODY is immune to black robe fever, the only thing we can do is maximize the chances that real world reference will temper the elitism.