Breyer has occasionally voted the right way, yes? A guy named after ice cream can’t be all bad.
Kagan surprised me.
Wise Latina voting with us on this would have shocked me. To think rats touted her as a moderate, Senate rats suggested her to GW Bush.
I’d wager there will never be a rat Justice (or Federal Judge, period) to the right of Breyer ever again.
“I’d wager there will never be a rat Justice (or Federal Judge, period) to the right of Breyer ever again.”
I would take that bet. Breyer is quite liberal (even if he’s clearly not as left-wing as Ginsburg and Sotomayor), and even Democrat presidents sometimes nominate moderates (either because they were recommended by local Democrats or because they don’t pay much attention and one slips by them) to district courts in Utah and such. Heck, Bill Clinton nominated a member of Opus Dei to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.