What do you think she is most likely to have admired about Warren Burger, that would cause her to pass on more congenially conservative picks such as Scalia or Rehnquist?
I have no idea. I'm sure there are many cases Warren weighed in on....but maybe it wasn't his opinions but other aspects of the way he exercised his career...ask Ms. Meirs.
But tell me this....why would anyone think it was due to his pro-roe vote if Ms. Meirs was active in the pro-life movement?
I'm not sure. But I'm thinking there are two explanations. One is that she is a dottering old woman, in which case that will be clear in the hearings and she will be gone.
The other is that, having spent the last years of her life vetting candidates and preparing them for questioning by the senate, she has a keen sense of what to say to the democrats when they ask her questions. And the "correct" answer to this question for her was really Warren Burger.
I'd love to hear her explain WHY that was her answer. And maybe her explanation would scare me.