Wrath of Blog

“I would like to see more people from outside the judicial monastery - somebody who has had some real-life experience.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)

What an idiot.

It’s the Supreme Court. The appropriate person is inevitably a lawyer, a respected judge, and above all one with solid experience in Constitutional law. That’s the whole point of the job.

This is not an appropriate place to nominate someone because they have “street cred.”