i think he is now addicted to all of the attention. he is DREAMING if he thinks he will get a judgeship, no way the hard left would sign off on someone like him.
I think he is dreaming too. But you never know, after the One has made scores of lower court appointments and as the 2012 election approaches, he might decide to appoint a token nonliberal so he can tout that he has been non-ideological when he hits the campaign trail.
Caleefornia is a lost cause anyway, anything a Judge Kmiec would do would be overturned by the Ninth Circus.