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All the talk of nominating a woman or a minority male to the Supreme Court ended today, when Bush took the more familiar route and nominated a white guy named Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. And no, I don’t count Harriet Miers as an attempt, because I have a feeling Bush knew she wouldn’t get past the confirmation process. I think it was no more than a feeble attempt to appease the folks who were calling for a woman to replace a woman. That didn’t work, so back to the original plan! As mentioned in the MSNBC article linked above:

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to preview Bush’s remarks, said Alito was virtually certain to get the nod from the moment Miers backed out.

Anyway, Alito has been called Scalito and Scalia-lite, which is not a good thing in my eyes. Scalia, the same judge that has been associated with the phrase, “conflict of interest” more than once during the Bush II administration. (He went duck hunting with Cheney before the Supreme Court was expected to hear a case that involved Cheney. Then there is the case of the Florida recount in 2000, where Scalia and Thomas had Bush family ties.)

Enough with Scalia. Alito is another super-conservative that is sure to come under extreme fire from the Democrats during his confirmation hearings. Will he pass? I’m sure he will after a long fight, although you never know… he may be Borked.