Yesterday’s New York Times editorial page made the following prediction about a future Supreme Court pick from Barack Obama:
As president, Mr. Obama would probably be more inclined to appoint centrist liberals, like Justice Stephen Breyer, than all-out liberals, like William Brennan or Thurgood Marshall.
That seems very unlikely to me for several reasons. The first reason is that when Emily Bazelon asked Obama’s advisors this precise question a few months ago, they apparently rejected that strategy:
I wondered if Obama might favor moderate judges over strongly liberal ones