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

In this piece from the AP, Senators Specter and Hutchison -- Republicans both -- call on the President to name a woman to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's newly re-opened seat.

Don't get me wrong: There are plenty of fine women out there, including Judge Priscilla Owen of the Fifth Circuit, Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the D.C. Circuit, and my personal favorite, Judge Edith Jones of the Fifth Circuit. Any of those three would be a fine choice.

But it's a pretty sad commentary on how priorities have degenerated when senators are more concerned about the nominee's biology than his or her jurisprudence. First, the President should choose a constitutionalist of unquestioned integrity. Then, let's worry about gender, race and all the rest.