Healthy conservative judges

[theboss]

When I was in law school, I remembered reading a profile on Clarence Thomas where he was discussing his fanatical exercise routine. He admitted that the reason he worked out so much was because he wanted to influence the direction of the country for a long, long time.

In reading this stuff about how Bush quizzed all the potential nominees on their health, I remembered that. It also reminded me of the scene in The Pelican Brief where the President wanted to replace the dead justices with "young conservatives."

And then it brought me back to Roberts lack of a record.

I think this is going to be the trend in nominees for the rest of W's term and for the rest of time maybe. Both sides see the court as the high ground in any political fight. Whoever controls it will ultimately control the country.

Thomas probably has another 25 years on the Bench. Roberts could be there 25 years. I still don't think Rehnquist is going to stay on the bench until 2009 so figure his replacement has 25 years. And some over at NRO are saying that Scalia should resign before 2008 in order to let Bush replace him with a younger model. I don't see THAT happening but still.

The average age of the court is still 123 by my calculations. If Bush can put in a block of five that will decide things for the next 20 years, controlling the White House suddenly won't matter as much.

This is the move to cement the conservative takeover of the country.

Just a warning.

[Son of California]

1. which is why we make out stand here

politely, intelligently, not like fanatics. But we have to begin the whisper campaign against this nominee.