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Associated Press has a list of possible nominees in the event of a Supreme Court vacancy, consisting of Luttig, Wilkinson, Alito, Garza, Roberts, McConnell, Olson, Thompson, Jones, Gonzales, Boggs, and Estrada. The first six are on AP's "short list." Further info about each of these people --- and others --- is linked at the right-hand-side of our confirmthem home page, under the heading "SCOTUS candidates."

Personally, I hope that whoever is chosen will understand how upsetting and wrong it has been for the Supreme Court to distort phrases like "due process" despite the original and intended meaning of the Constitution. The Court is now biding its time until its next grand edict implementing the distorted due process clause: "We must allow society as a whole, if we can, to absorb the subject," explains Justice Kennedy. Well, we didn't absorb Dred Scott, we didn't absorb Lochner, and we aren't absorbing Roe v. Wade. We don't want judges to legislate, we don't like being socially engineered by lifetime appointees, and we want the rule of law instead of the rule of judges.