re: #392 flyers1974

Did you feel the same way when George H.W. Bush picked Thomas to replace Marshall? On the same note do you believe Sandra Day O’connor’s gender had nothing to do with Reagan’s decision?

I’m not a Republican hack, and was not old enough to pay attention to the nomination process regarding these judges. The eventual nominee will be either male or female, and I don’t necessarily read much into the gender, but in this case, all of the candidates in Obama’s short-list were women. Am I do view that as an innocent statistical improbability, or do we have some strict affirmative action in place at the pre-selection phase? No men were even considered for the job. I find that disturbing.

By the way, I’m not a fan either of Bush (senior or junior) nor of Reagan, and if the race and gender of the justices they nominated played an important role in the selection, that too disgusts me. For the same reasons.