Librarian, UC GLS grad, says:
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As to be expected men like Stone, Eisgruber, and Kendall will never find a woman good enough. It might not be this,
but it will be that.
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WaPo reports:
Either way, Sotomayor’s reticence, if not her nomination, has disappointed legal thinkers on the left. The hearings “did serious damage to the cause of progressive thought in constitutional law,” said Geoffrey R. Stone, a University of Chicago Law School professor who was dean there when Obama joined its faculty.
Doug Kendall, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a liberal think tank, called them “a totally missed opportunity. . . . The progressive legal project hit rock bottom [last] week.”
…Stone, of the University of Chicago, predicted that Sotomayor’s hearings will make that task more difficult by creating “an unfortunate baseline” Republicans can use to challenge anyone more demonstrably to the left.
Princeton’s Eisgruber [author of a book on the Supreme Court nomination process] disagreed, saying that, by choosing a nominee who is female and Hispanic, Obama will be “free the next time to push harder, if he wants to, because he’s satisfied some constituencies.”