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Supreme Court Vacancy
Irish Pennents' blog
By Jak kelly
The president must nominate to the Supreme Court someone who:
(1) is solidly conservative;
(2) is obviously qualified for the position, and
(3) is young enough to serve on the Court for a couple of decades.
It would be very nice if the Supreme Court nominee is also:
(4) Personable and articulate. As Fred Barnes notes here, Robert Bork's forbidding appearance and blunt responses to his Senate inquisitors made it easier for liberal interest groups to "bork" him.
(5) Black, hispanic, or female. The Left will oppose any conservative ferociously, but its credibility will be diminished, and interest groups somewhat divided, if it cannot invoke Politically Correct stereotypes.
John Hinderaker thinks Janice Rogers Brown would be the ideal candidate. I agree. She meets all five criteria, and is a twofer on (5).
If Bush nominates Brown, the Dems will go stark raving mad--even more so, I think, than they would over the three favorites. If that's possible. But their craziness would strike many people as bizarre, especially given that the Senate just confirmed Brown to the Court of Appeals a couple of weeks ago. Further, many people would notice that the last time we had one of these bouts of hysteria was over Clarence Thomas, and some would notice a pattern.
When liberals were trying to smear Brown as an "extremist," they cited her opinion in a takings case as "proof." But the widespread anger at the Kelo decision makes this a pretty lame argument to use against her.
Another argument for Brown is that she would be the most difficult of prospective nominees for Democrats to try to filibuster in the manner in which they are filibustering the Bolton nomination, through endless delays for soliciting more information. Since Brown was just confirmed after a long, long battle, the Senate Judiciary Committee has all the information it can reasonably claim to need about Janice Rogers Brown. So she has the best chance of any conservative for a quick confirmation. It also will be harder for Democrats in the "Gang of 14" to argue that there are "extraordinary circumstances" which justify a filibuster against her for the Supreme Court, when they said no such circumstances existed to justify blocking her from the DC Court of Appeals. |
