A SCOTUS Nightmare Vision

I know I said I wasn't going to talk about the Supreme Court vacancy, but I saw the headline on this column (thanks to How Appealing) from the Birmingham News and nearly went apeshit. Turns out that under the heading of "Roy Moore for Supreme Court" is an editorial laying out why the disgraced ex-state Supreme Court justice would make a disastrous pick for SCOTUS. Nonetheless, more than 100,ooo if his followers have signed a petition seeking just that. The mind boggles at the prospect (and the stomach lurches).

Also on the Supreme Court beat, there's this interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor on stare decisis and the role of precedent and how the view of the nominee on that subject may be a key item for confirmation hearings.