Wisconsin native Paul Clement tops the list every time. There are a handful of very smart conservatives who are on the short list.
I'd want a word put in for Eugene Volokh, legal scholar who's foursquare RKBA, ever since it was still unfashionable and career-disadvantageous to be RKBA-friendly (a palm to lefty-law dean Laurence Tribe on that, he joined Volokh and others in finding 2A a stong individual right).
We’re not getting ahead of ourselves.
Looking toward Supreme Court appointees is among the most important reasons to support Romney.
I’m glad he is considering solid conservatives and I have total faith that he will make excellent appointments.
And, by the way, Romney IS the nominee if one lives in the known universe.
Janice Rogers Brown should be on the top of the list. Plus she is a black woman Judge so the liberals would have a hard time defeating her. W. Bush appointed Janice Rogers Brown on the D.C. Circuit of Appeals. She is one of the most eloquent spokesperson’s for the Constitution
Here is some of what Brown says:
Janice Rogers Brown On American Government:
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. [“A Whiter Shade of Pale,” Speech to Federalist Society (April 20. 2000)(“Federalist speech” at 8]Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized....When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems? [“Hyphenasia: the Mercy Killing of the American Dream,” Speech at Claremont-McKenna College (Sept. 16, 1999) at 3,4]In the last 100 years – and particularly in the last 30 – ...[g]overnment has been transformed from a necessary evil to a nanny – benign, compassionate, and wise. Sometimes transformation is a good thing. Sometimes, though, it heralds not higher ground but rather, to put a different gloss on Pat Moynihan’s memorable phrase, defining democracy down. [“Fifty Ways to Lose Your Freedom,” Speech to Institute of Justice (Aug. 12, 2000)(“IFJ speech”) at 2][W]e no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens. [IFJ speech at 3-4]Government acts as a giant siphon, extracting wealth, creating privilege and power, and redistributing it. [Speech at McGeorge School of Law (Nov. 21, 1997) at 18][See also Landgate, Inc. v. California Coastal Commission, 953 P.2d 1188, 1212 (Cal. 1998)(Brown, J., dissenting)(referring to government as “relentless siphon.”)]
http://joshuajamesbrown.blogspot.com/2008/06/judge-janice-rogers-brown-dc-circuit.html