Michael Luttig for Justice

I know it's just a shot in the dark, but he is still on all the short lists. Having sat down with Judge Luttig for several hours and heard his judicial philosophy and where he stands on the issue of abortion among other things, there is no one I would rather see sitting on the Supreme Court bench than Michael Luttig. I realize that the President will probably appoint a woman or a minority to the court, which would clearly exclude Luttig, but one can still hold out hope. Bush has never been one to just do what people want him to do. He feeds off of people disagreeing with his decisions in the most vociferous of ways.

Luttig is a 1981 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, and has an excellent record of his clerks becoming Supreme Court clerks with Scalia and Thomas primarily. I believe the count is now 41 of his past 43 clerks have gone on to be clerks at the Supreme Court. This is a result of his intense and demanding training routine...the equivalent of Navy SEALs training for clerks.