Nonsequiter. - "brilliant legal scolars" are exactly what we have to keep off the court. Souter, and Breyer were considered brilliant legal scolars. That's where extra-constitutional decisions come from. We need some ordinary people with ordinary minds to read the plain language of the constitution and make decisions based therein.
Brilliant legal scholars who refuse to limit themselves are what must be kept off the court. Brilliant legal scholars with constructionist principles are badly needed.
The idea that Joe Six-pack can write an opinion that will stand, let alone influence the legal climate of the nation, is so very, very naive.
" "brilliant legal scolars" are exactly what we have to keep off the court."
Hogwash. Scalia is a brilliant legal scholar. So was Bork, and he would have been a great Justice.
"Souter, and Breyer were considered brilliant legal scolars."
ROFL. Souter is considered a goofball even by liberals - he's a bad justice, period. Breyer is the Liberal Justice, who may be 'brilliant', as is Laurence Tribe, but is wrong.
Who Bush really needed to nominate is: "a brilliant legal scholar in the Constitutionalist / original intent mold" ...
"We need some ordinary people with ordinary minds to read the plain language of the constitution and make decisions based therein."
Pathetic what absurdities people contort themselves into to defend a sub-par nominee! 'ordinary minds'??? IQ is a handicap now? That would give us another O'Connor, another Blackmun, another William O Douglas. or worse! (O'Connor was no slouch mind-wise, but was from the 'real world' school of looking at cases; look where that got us!) Even Souter is a mediocre mind, and look where that got us. WE dont need 'ordinary minds' we simply need to put the best *conservative* legal minds we can find out there.