[EternalVigilance]

I personally have always favored the elevation of Scalia...he is a truly great man.

But I have heard arguments in favor of Justice Thomas getting the nod, simply because he is much younger than Scalia, and would be CJ for much longer.

The idea kinda grows on a guy, especially when you muse about how crazy that appointment would make the RATS! ;-)

[mwl1]

Wake up. Bush is not going to sacrifice precious political capital by means of a replay of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas saga. To do so would be politically insane.

Scalia will get the nod. He is tremendously uncontroversial and was unanimously confirmed in 1986. RATS cannot possibly repudiate their prior acquiesence.

[sinkspur]

But I have heard arguments in favor of Justice Thomas getting the nod

I've read that Thomas doesn't have the stomach for another confirmation hearing.