In between client obligations, I had to at least put out my two cents in bullet point fashion on Judge Samuel Alito, who is a brilliant pick to succeed O’Connor.

The sex of the nominee does not matter - it takes a certain intellectual cretinism to believe that the SCOTUS ought to have sexual or racial quotas.

Judge Alito is more unifying than O’Connor was (remember 2000, Democrats?).

Chuck Schumer et al will lose big on this one (the SCOTUS is not a bus - Rosa Parks has nothing to do with it, dear Senator).

Paternal notification of a pending abortion is morally right.

I predict the Constitutional option will be employed by Frist.

Other thoughts to come when I can collect them.