[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Yeah! This is the news I needed to hear.

Today just achieved "great" status. Hope the rumors turn out true.

Way to go Bush! My pick is Luttig.

[Keith in Iowa]

All this wild-arsed speculation is mind-numbing. I wish all these pundits and pundit wannabes would all just STFU and wait for a nomination, and then react. Pre-acting to something like this seems like peeing into the wind to me.

[Unam Sanctam]

Just wishful thinking at this point, I bet.

[voletti]

Choosing between Scalito and Luttig is like choosing your favorite eye. I like both. Can we have Souter step aside so that both could get in, please?

[Bahbah]

My pick is Luttig.

Good pick. I would be delighted with either one. Plugs and Chuckie, are you ready for your intellectual superiors.

[dakine]

Thought the pick had to be a chick...

[NeoCaveman]

Way to go Bush! My pick is Luttig.

Luttig is the best. He's a strict constructionist all the way. Also, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts would be thrilled with Luttig joining them as they are both friends of his.

Then again, Alito would be fine too.

[Always Right]

This fight is winnable if he can get McCain, Graham, DeWine, and Warner on board. Chaffee, Snowe, Collins and Specter are lost causes.

[woofie]

Who is younger?

[saganite]

Wow! Two outstanding choices Too bad he didn't go with one of them the first time but if it's truly one of them all is forgiven.

[Lx]

I would have bet he was going to appoint another woman.

Even so, both of them are great picks.

[newzjunkey]

Either of those two appear to a good choice but it's anyone's guess he will. There are many, many well qualified candidates of all manner of racial, ethnic, religious backgrounds. He could still pick a woman.

Bob Novak had this say: A footnote: Support among senators for Bush's nomination in place of Miers is concentrated on two conservative women: Federal Circuit Judge Karen Williams of Orangeburg, S.C., and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.

[drlevy88]

OK, who pierced Dubya's tinfoil?

[tioga]

any comments?

[chet_in_ny]

As a half-Italian attorney who practices in NJ, my pick is Alito :)

[Types_with_Fist]

With an announcement expected Sunday or Monday...

Reh, Heh... Reeeeaaaallllyyy? I had heard it would be quick but that's sooner than I expected.

[counterpunch]

Lets not forget that the administration has floated names as a red herring just to get the Left off balance, like the case with Judge Edith Brown Clement being reported as a done deal just before Roberts was announced.

[inquest]

My pick is Luttig.

How do you think he'd compare to Alito? One big thing I'm curious about are things like WOT-related matters - presidential powers and surveillance powers and things like that. Does anybody know of any indications one way or the other?

[Americalover]

Butter the popcorn, there is going to be a brawl and we have ringside seats! Watching them go nuts will be as enjoyable as the moral victory.

[RichInOC]

Whoever he picks, I think he ought to walk in with Barney first...just to see how many people he frightens to death before he waves the nominee in.

(One of the Old Guard caisson horses in Roman tack might be fun too, but bringing one of those into the West Wing corridors might be a tight fit.)

[Torie]

Rereading the Rosen piece, Luttig would be the better pick. Alito ruled that the feds could not regulate the posssession of machine guns, allegedly. That will be all over the Dem ads against him, and fair and damaging comment.