Supreme Court's painful Season (NYT)

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/magazine/the-supreme-courts-painful-season.html?_r=1&ref=politics

"In the last quarter century, the pool of possible Supreme Court justices has generally come from the federal appeals courts. Obama broke that mold by selecting Kagan, then his solicitor general, partly because they were ideologically simpatico, but also for a more dispiriting reason: Democrats simply don’t have many federal appellate judges to choose from. Particularly young ones. Since 1981, Epstein says, Republicans have appointed 41 federal appellate judges under age 45 to the Democrats’ 10. Bush placed 13 judges in this group. Obama, so far, has zero".

This is why it will be EASY to vote for Obama next year - THE COURTS....(SCOTUS, Court of Appeals, District)....Don't want a repub making these appointments...

[DCKit]

1. An excellent point to make to those of us who are less than enthused.

It's the one thing we can do to slow our march to fascism.

[woolldog]

2. Ginsburg needs to retire soon.

Just in case Obama doesn't get that second term.