According to ABC News, the president WILL put forward a nominee to the Supreme Court this evening at 9 p.m.
As a result, we will be cutting Wednesday's show into two parts.
First, we'll talk with the Niagara County Historical Society. Then we'll spend the last 20 minutes or so discussing the nominee and the nomination process.
Roberts seems to have good legal breeding, if you will. And seems like a logical conservative choice for GWB ... (Bio on Roberts) ... but raises a lot of flags among the liberal community. If he were picked as a replacement for Rehnquist, he might night have the problems he may incur as a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor. Should be a fun summer.
BTW, added to this morning's lineup: Reid Cox, General Counsel of the Center for Individual Freedom. We'll spend just a couple minutes with him at 9:40 a.m.
I'm sure the Hamburg elementary school he attended is already beset by hordes of liberals fingering their way through 40-year-old school records to see if Johnny Roberts walked out of the boys room with his zipper down.
For some reason this guy is being deified as the best thing to happen to American jurisprudence since John Jay, even though I think he's only actually been on the bench for a couple of years.
Clarence Thomas had only been a judge for a couple of years as well, and look what kind of a disaster that turned out to be. There's a funny anecdote that leaked out about Thomas. The Supreme Court meets regularly to discuss the cases before it. Thomas *never* opens his mouth at these meetings. Why? Because he's not terribly bright to begin with, but he was basically a professional political hack before Bush Sr. tapped him. JH