>>As far as I know, her credentials haven’t been called into question at all. The Assembly likes someone else. That’s the good-ol’-boy network that we eschew from the GOPe, isn’t it?<<
Sorry, but you’re way off base with that good-ol’-boy remark. The legislature apparently has the authority to select supreme court justices. The Governor tried to select someone other than their choice.
Judge Roush is unfortunately caught in the middle, but she was put in that position by the Governor, not by the legislature. He should have consulted with them first.
The fact that he didn’t is a huge warning flag, regardless of your personal respect for the way she’s performed in the past. So far, you’ve said absolutely zero about her politics, and politics is what appointments to the supreme court are all about.
Well, I don't know her political ideology. I don't run in those social circles.
Yes, apparently politics is all that matters in nominations to any court in this country, and that's very unfortunate. That's how we end up with brilliant and principled legal minds like Roberts and Kagan and Sotomayor . A sad reality, maybe, but that doesn't make it right.