A Correctly Chosen Nominee
The upcoming hearings will no doubt tell us more and enlighten us less, but then that's the way of Washington. Somehow or another, the entire criteria for accepting or rejecting Supreme Court nominees has come down to abortion. I don’t know how that happened . . . or rather, I do but it still amazes me that the right and left (however you care to define them) just fall apart over this single issue. We ought to get over that, but it’s one of the charming things about America that we don’t.
So, Sam Alito Jr. got the nod this time around and one cannot but wonder what races through a jurist's mind at such a moment. This is the pinnacle of a career, the choice-of-choices, the court-of-courts, the honor of all honors and yet it must be frightening in the extreme. One's entire life snooped through, professionally as well as personally. My life couldn't stand that, perhaps not yours either. Every statement uttered, every decision made combed for hidden meaning, a life turned to tea-leaves i…