Scalito is the Pick

Third Circuit Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., aka "Scalito" or "Scalia Light," is apparently to be named as the replacement for the Supreme Court opening. I would have put him on my top 3 list of worst choices.

However, those who call him Scalito are off target. Although he is judicially akin to Justice Antonin Scalia in his ultra-conservative, anti-choice views, he's not as nasty. See a 2003 Legal Intelligncer article on Alito The Mild-Mannered Scalia, which describes Alito and a number of his important rulings.

Read it and weep.

As an aside, Trent Lott said that he wanted the President to pick the best "Man, Woman or Minority" that he could find for the court opening. Question of the Day: Which is Alito?