Yes. This must be.

I don’t know exactly *why* the dark power of Shuma-Gorath should turn out to be uniquely vulnerable to the common-law method employed in the service of a cautious but thoroughly decent progressivism with a 19th-century esthetic sensibility. But that’s why MGK’s the one who should be writing it, not me.

Also at some point there should be a zombie Scalia who Souter gets to brain with a crowbar, or possibly incinerate with a flamethrower.

1: Republicans will claim that Obama plans to nominate Bill Ayers.

2: Republicans will claim that whoever gets nominated is worse than Bill Ayers.

3: Republicans will demand to see a birth certificate and five other forms of identification as proof of citizenship.

4: Michelle Bachmann will uncover the nominee’s covert support for a ‘one-world currency’.

5: Michael Steele will make no less than three attacks on the nominee using slang that went out of style with Boy George.

He burnishes the poorly represented “Crazy authoritarians” contingent?

Oh wait, Scalia’s still there. Yeah no, I have no idea how you could have thought that.

And neither Wood nor Kagan would be particularly “historic,” so – yeah, it’s probably Sotomayor.

Do you think Obama would nominate someone for ‘historical’ status? I mean, his place in the history books as ‘historical’ is pretty well guaranteed for being the first African-American POTUS. But also, I suspect if he tried picking a minority to be Souter’s replacement, the right-wing would jump on him for favoring minorities over those poor, beleaguered white people who hardly have a chance in today’s dusky-skin-dominated world. Well, I don’t know for sure if they’d do that over a Hispanic nominee, but that’s what comes to my mind.

There was a lot of press over the notion that Gonzales would have been the first Hispanic nominee. Of course, he was never nominated.

So he is.

I don’t know why I have such a strong impression of Alito’s nomination adding a degree of diversity to the Supreme Court. I must have confused my memories of him with Gonzales’ nomination.

–hza

Are there judge fansites out there that only lawyers know about? You seemed to whip out those names pretty quickly, but you’re talking about judges from states (and a country) not your own. Do law students get together and gossip about judges around America, or does all this just come from exhaustive study of current caselaw (again, of a country not your own).

They don’t particularly, not beyond the major decisions anyway, but bear in mind that I’m a student editor for a site devoted to goings-on re: the Canadian Supreme Court, and significant decisions and occurrences in the American SC (which is frequently cited as non-binding precedent in Canadian courts) are the sort of thing I need to follow independently.

Samuel Alito. Perhaps you meant the first Hispanic-American woman?

Alito is Italian-American, not Hispanic-American.

I don’t even know. Samuel Alito is a little bitch.

Samuel Alito. Perhaps you meant the first Hispanic-American woman?

–hza