More Names, More Names!

Hmm, so who's on your list? Image Courtesy of Wikicommons

It’s Court Craziness, and we here at USDemocrazy are loving every second of it! Everybody has their own list of names for who will replace the good Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court (We have our own… suggest a name here). Few times does everybody get to be excited about the Supreme Court, so we’re living it up while we can.

Here’s your rundown:

Let us consort the oracle. Oh NYTimes, tell us who the president may nominate for president. And maybe give us a brief biography. Yeah that would be good.

Check out the NYTimes link here!

BUT! Great Slate Online, we want more! Like an interactive, “Choose Your Own Supreme Court Justice” program. Yea, that would be cool

And presto! Find Slate’s Choose Your Own Justice doo-dad here!

And here, from Politico, we are told that Dems will be taking aim at the Court’s conservative bloc.

In addition to building a defensive perimeter around Obama’s pick — whoever that may be — Democrats will use the hearings to attack what they view as a dangerous strain of conservative judicial activism espoused by Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

The name on EVERYONE’s list seems to be Elena Kagan. Jeffrey Toobin, in an interview with NPR, agreeded:

I think it’s going to be Elena Kagan, the current solicitor general and the former dean of Harvard Law School. She has a reputation as a consensus builder.

But not everyone’s a fan. Elena Kagan is not Glenn Greenwald’s pick.

If a Kagan nomination is to be stopped, it can only happen before her nomination is announced by Obama, not after.

Oh boy! This is exciting.