http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/101527.php George Will has an excellent piece today laying out the case for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson for the chief justiceship. Judge Wilkinson was until recently the chief judge of the reliably conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Overcoming my instinctual... en-us http://kerfuffles.blogspot.com/2005/07/non-judges-only-for-court.html Senator Reid cited Justice Hugo Black of Alabama who was a former senator and who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937. Although Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan, President Roosevelt, being a progressi...