Your SCOTUS Short List

[Kingpoleon]

What’s a list of people you would want to appoint? Mine:

David F. Levi(68) - Former District Judge & Dean of Duke Law School
Anthony Romero*(54) - Executive Director of the ACLU
Ken Mehlman*(53) - Former RNC Chairman, Harvard Law graduate
Alphonso David*(49) - HRC President
Gurbir Grewal(46) - New Jersey Attorney General, Sikh-American
Neal Katyal(49) - Former Deputy Solicitor General
Jim Letten(66) - Former US District Attorney
Eric Posner(53) - Chicago Law Professor
Amul Thapar(50) - District/Circuit Judge
Tani Cantil-Sakauye(60) - California Chief Justice
Jahna Lindemuth(49) - Alaska Attorney General
Janice Rogers Brown(70) - Former District Judge
Leondra Kruger(43) - California Associate Justice
Allison Jones Rushing(37) - Circuit Judge


Bryan Stevenson(59) - Equal Justice Initiative founder/President
Kent Syverud(64) - Syracuse University President, former Dean of Vanderbilt Law & Washington University Law


*LGBT+ people

[President Johnson]

Sri Srivanson, Goodwin Lieu, Doug Jones, Brian Sandoval, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Maura Healey, Ken Salazar, Claire McCaskill, William Hochul

[brucejoel99]

Sri Srinivasan, Paul Watford, Jane Kelly, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Jacqueline Nguyen, Goodwin Liu, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Lucy Koh, Patricia Millett

[Mr. Reactionary]

1. Eugene Volokh

After that:

Pub Senate
1. William Pryor
2. Mike Lee
3. Paul Clement

Dem Senate
1. Erwin Chemerinsky
2. Akhil Amar
3. Sri Srivasan

[KaiserDave]

Merrick Garland.

[brucejoel99]

Merrick Garland.

Nah, he'll be 68 in the next presidential term. I love Merrick Garland but that's a waste of a Supreme Court nomination.

[KaiserDave]

Merrick Garland.

Nah, he'll be 68 in the next presidential term. I love Merrick Garland but that's a waste of a Supreme Court nomination.

At this point it's less about age and whatnot and more about justice. Justice.

Also he's cool.

[Perlen vor den Schweinen]

Whatever twentysomethings that agrees with me on most everything.

[Del Tachi]

SCOTUS is too infested with bicoastal Ivy Leaguers, its time to give Real America a voice on the nation's highest court.  My preferred picks would be:

1.  Keith Blackwell (44), Georgia (J.D. from UGA)
2.  Bill Pryor (57), Alabama (J.D. from Tulane)
3.  Raymond Kethledge (52), Michigan (J.D. from UMich),

if working with a Democratic Senate to replace a solidly liberal justice, I'd throw them a bone and offer-up:

1.  Leah Ward Sears (64), Georgia (J.D. from Emory)
 

[MarkD]

Sri Srinivasan, because he is committed to neutrality and objectivity in making judicial decisions.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

Roy Moore

[Orser67]

I would probably only consider federal appellate judges and state supreme court judges who are under the age of 60, have shown themselves to be fairly liberal, and wouldn't be especially polarizing. So:

Sri Srinivasan, Paul Watford, Jacqueline Nguyen, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Leondra Kruger

[Fuzzy Bear]

Amy Coney Barrett

That's a pretty short list.

[Dr. MB]

image from Supreme Court page on Wikipedia

[Mr. Reactionary]

Amy Coney Barrett

That's a pretty short list.

I see the Swamp Nazi-Boomer alliance is continuing to hold strong in the Sunshine state.

Notice the above post is literally nothing but an insult ... it contains no analysis, no insight, no points. Literally just "muh u r Hitler!"

Mods pls delete.

[brucejoel99]

Amy Coney Barrett

That's a pretty short list.

I see the Swamp Nazi-Boomer alliance is continuing to hold strong in the Sunshine state.

Notice the above post is literally nothing but an insult ... it contains no analysis, no insight, no points. Literally just "muh u r Hitler!"

Mods pls delete.

Notice the above post is literally nothing but whining ... it contains no analysis, no insight, no points. Literally just "muh i am butthurt snowflake!"

Mods pls delete.

[Idaho Conservative]

A strict constructionist who is Christian.  Preferably not from the northeast/ivies.

[Fanofeverything25]

this is now relevant so any ideas?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Amy Coney Barrett

That's a pretty short list.

Any particular reason why she stands out to you? I think she has an interesting perspective on the law and wouldn't mind having her on the Court if it weren't for the 5-or-6-justice ideologized and partisanized bloc she'd be part of, but why's she head and shoulders above other right-leaning judges in your book?

I'm not asking as a criticism; in fact, she'd probably be near the top of my list too if I were working with a conservative Senate to replace a conservative predecessor (say, if Thomas were to retire young-ish for whatever reason). Other than that my list would be about the same as the less-overtly-ideological figures on brucejoel's--either that or I'd bypass people who are currently public figures entirely and start just raiding the memberships of religious-left legal services groups like CLINIC.

[NewYorkExpress]

Currently?

U.S Court of Appeals Judge, 9th Circuit, Jacqueline Nguyen

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA)

Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY)

Former Governor Brian Sandoval (R-NV)

Chief Judge, U.S Court of Appeals, D.C Circuit Sri Srinivasan

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch (D-NC)

Former U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara (D-NY)

Former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D)

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Allison Jones Rushing  
Mike Lee
Ted Cruz
Trey Gowdy
Amy Cony Barrett
Barbra Lagoa