“Hardiman has been my pick from the beginning.”
Mine too.
Automatic disqualification for anyone that is “thiscloselyconnected” to either Anthony Kennedy or the Bushes.
Apparently most of FR didn't get this memo, since Trump picked Kennedy clerk Neil Gorsuch last time, and 85% of FReepers had orgasms over the appointment and refused to consider ANY evidence whatsoever that he wasn't the reincarnation of Antonin Scalia (and many STILL won't, even AFTER Gorsuch went rogue and started voting with the four commie RAT judges in 5-4 decisions)
According to many of my fellow FReepers, you can be a Anthony Kennedy alumni and as liberal as you want in your personal life, as long as you claim your "judicial philosophy" is "originalist"
It will MAGICALLY guarantee you ALWAYS vote the right way in the future! This "originalist" stuff for judges is like spinach for Popeye!