The president officially nominated Judge John Roberts Jr. of the D.C. Court of Appeals to be the next Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court tonight. Though other candidates such as J. Michael Luttig, Edith Jones, Emilio Garza, and Janice Rodgers Brown were preferable, Judge Roberts is an excellent choice and there is little doubt that he will markedly improve the quality of the high court. He has a superb, nay brilliant, legal mind and he comes with over twenty years of distinguished public service. Every bit of evidence available suggests that he is a strong "textualist", or someone who believes that a text should be given the meaning it had when it was adopted by the American people. Statements by the punditry that he more closely resembles his former boss Chief Justice Rehnquist than Justices Thomas and Scalia are really irrelevant, for the differences in their jurisprudential philosophies are for the most negligible. As long as his jurisprudence falls in line with those three he has my unreserved support.
UPDATE (11:54 P.M. 7/20/05): Amen.
UPDATE (1:25 A.M. 7/28/05): This guy's for real.
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