Legal Commentary

In a previous post I asked whether brilliance is necessary for a justice, and whether more intelligence = better judging.  I intimated that my inclination was that beyond a certain (very high) level of intelligence, I saw no evidence that yet more intelligence led to better judging.  Larry Solum and others have taken me to task in a variety of ways (check out the comments and Larry's post at his blog for the roasting).

In order to begin to respond to the questions Larry and others raise, let's begin with this: what makes for a good Supreme Court justice?  What are the criteria, and who are the examples?