BTW..one more question you might know...has Bush said anything about naming Roberts' replacement to the DC circuit?..( which in many ways is MORE important than the SCOTUS)..I'd love to see Estrada get it..
I predict that there will be no cloture abuse on the Alito nomination, and that the languishing Circuit Court nominations will not be advanced. To do so would risk confronting the abuse of cloture, and the GOP-lead Senate is averse to that confrontation.
has Bush said anything about naming Roberts' replacement to the DC circuit?
Not that I know of. Neither the Judiciary Committe material not the WH announcements contain any nominations since July 29, 2005, other than Roberts to CJ, Miers and Alito.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/
http://judiciary.senate.gov/noms/109.pdf