An interesting speculative shortlist of who would...

An interesting speculative shortlist of who would might be nominated next for the Supreme Court if a Democratic candidate wins the presidency in 2008. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, and even Barack Obama makes the list.

Submitted by crazymonk on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 5:00am.

Comments (6)

what, no former democratic solicitors general?

Jon May | Thu, 07/12/2007 - 2:46pm

Actually, Seth Waxman *is* on the list. Not on the first tier list, but on the full list in the PDF.

crazymonk | Thu, 07/12/2007 - 3:31pm

I guess they figured Walter Dellinger was too old, huh?

Jon May | Thu, 07/12/2007 - 5:10pm

I would not be interested in a liberal version of Scalia. I like to think we could do better.

Lorelei | Thu, 07/12/2007 - 7:43pm

Scalia is generally very smart and pretty funny. He's not a terrible person to emulate. If his views on moral-stuff weren't determined by his Catholicism, he'd be decent. His opinion in Kyllo was awesome! He just needs to get to know a few gay abortionists and he'll be ok.

Ingen Angiven | Thu, 07/12/2007 - 9:39pm

That's funny Ingen I could give you a Ingen cold air intake for that great joke.. LOL... Seriously, Scalia good be the next on the line...

Anonymous | Fri, 07/13/2007 - 6:58pm