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By Carol Platt Liebau Posted in SCOTUS — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

In a post below, one of the most interesting proposed nominees for the O'Connor seat is Judge Douglas Ginsburg. A brilliant jurist with an antitrust background, his first nomination to the Court by President Ronald Reagan was scuttled when one of his former Harvard Law School colleagues reported that he had smoked marijuana a few times back in the '60's and '70's (those concerns seem quaintly anachronistic now, don't they?).

Judge Ginsburg has served as chief judge of the D.C. Circuit since 2001, with great success, by all accounts. It's an idea worth at least some consideration. Any chance that he's the one in the post below whose name hasn't been "widely mentioned"? Mightn't the President have a fair amount of compassion for and understanding of "youthful indiscretions"?