Curt Levey tells Salon there will be a big fight unless Obama's new Supreme Court pick is very moderateSalon spoke with Curt Levey, the director of the Committee for Justice, a GOP group originally founded to push George W. Bush's court nominees, about how Republicans might react to the selection of a new justice. His message? There will be "an interesting conformation fight this summer...unless
nominates someone very moderate."
For Levey, "very moderate" means someone like Judge Merrick Garland, a Clinton-appointee to the United State Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Garland, along with Solicitor General Elana Kagan and Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit Court, is widely thought to be the one of the mostly like candidates to replace Stevens.
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According to Levey, Obama will be precluded from picking a nominee championed by liberals -- such as Harold Koh or Pamela Karlan -- anyway: "Given the election and given that his political standing is not as strong as it was last summer and given that he has to seriously worry about losing some of the red state Democrats like (Blanche) Lincoln or (Ben) Nelson if he nominates someone too far to the left." In light of this, Levey believes that Wood would be the closest "progressives would get to someone they could really embrace."
Link: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/04/09/stevens_replacement_levey_reaction
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