TW: This from a May New Yorker article outlines McCain's potential approach to the Supreme Court. If you like Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts then you would like McCain as the person pushing up the next Supreme Court nominess. As I have mentioned before (see 9/9 post), the Court is one more conservative away from a massive shift to the right.
Toobin:
"McCain plans to continue, and perhaps even accelerate, George W. Bush’s conservative counter-revolution at the Supreme Court...Might he really be a “maverick” when it comes to the Supreme Court? The answer, almost certainly, is no. The Senator has long touted his opposition to Roe, and has voted for every one of Bush’s judicial appointments; the rhetoric of his speech shows that he is getting his advice on the Court from the most extreme elements of the conservative movement. With the general election in mind, McCain had to express himself with such elaborate circumlocution because he knows that the constituency for such far-reaching change in our constellation of rights is small"
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/05/26/080526taco_talk_toobin
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