SocraticGadfly: Your SCOTUS short list?

May 11, 2009

Your SCOTUS short list?

Chuck Todd provides his dish, saying Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm are on the short list.

I don’t totally believe that. Obama at least gives the appearance of thinking far enough ahead not to have appointed Napolitano for so short-term a position. Plus, the “conservative terrorist” paper that DHS recently released would spell rough sailing in the Senate.

Diane Wood of the 7th Circuit Court would fit the bill of a Friend of Barack and of an appellate judge, as, of course, would Sonia Sotomayor. But, at 58, Wood’s the oldest.

Granholm? Might be the “gray” type that Obama favors.

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