Legal Commentary

Will Sunstein "Excite The Left" As A SCOTUS Nominee?

By Big Tent Democrat

Glenn Greenwald:

The New York Times' Peter Baker has an article today on Obama's leading candidates to replace Stevens, in which one finds this strange passage:

The president’s base hopes he will name a full-throated champion to counter Justice Antonin Scalia, the most forceful conservative on the bench. . . . The candidates who would most excite the left include the constitutional scholars Harold Hongju Koh, Cass R. Sunstein and Pamela S. Karlan.

Glenn seems convinced "the Left" won't be excited by Sunstein. I wish I could be so sure. At this point, I suspect that may not be true.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).