Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Jeff Rosen Hearts Diane Wood:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1242838510
Jeff Rosen [1]profiles Supreme Court short-lister Judge Diane Wood,
and it's very favorable. (It also relies more on named sources than
his [2]profile of Judge Sotomayor.) His bottom line: "Her combination
of moderate liberalism and a judicious temperament would make her a
worthy successor to David Souter."
For what it's worth, I've long thought Judge Wood is the obvious
choice. As I [3]told Marcia Coyle:
She has a wide range of experience, including substantial
government service; she has the intellectual heft to go toe-to-toe
with the Court's conservatives; she is reliably liberal on the
issues the administration and its base are likely to be most
focused on (including abortion); she has experience that would seem
to satisfy the president's concern for empathy, including being a
working mother while on the faculty at the University of Chicago
when they did not have maternity leave.
On a related note, Judge Wood is [4]in Washington today.
References
1.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=7fe82716-b9da-4fed-a113-904a9bd424ff
2. http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1241441130.shtml
3. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202430756479&slreturn=1
4. http://blogs.abcnews.com/legalities/2009/05/judge-wood-goes.html
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