If Romney does become President, I expect he’ll be cautious about his choice, depending heavily on the political climate.
Interestingly, two of the three top possibilities are from Wisconsin.
Pure Romney Republican manipulation.
Meh.
Can anyone name a single conservative that Mitt Romney named to the courts in Massachusetts?
Just to put things into perspective, back when we saw lists of George W. Bush’s potential court picks floating around in 2000, Harriet Myers wasn’t on any of them.
In other words, a list of “good judges” floated by the Party to try to reassure the base about a bad GOP candidate doesn’t mean a whole lot.
I’m still very surprised Ginsburg didn’t retire when Obama could have easily replaced her with someone 25 years younger when they had the chance. Same for Breyer.
We conservatives seem to have lucked out with Scalia and Kennedy both lasting through Obama’s term from 73-76 but that was no guarantee, and if one of them had retired/stepped down for whatever reason we’d have bene totally screwed. The liberals would have controlled the Court for the next 20 years. Thankfully that didn’t happen.
I can only guess that Obama and the dems guaranteed a victory and that’s why she stayed on. If there was even the slightest chance the smart play was to retire last summer.
Wisconsin Possible Romney SCOTUS picks: 2 from WI
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