And the Kabuki Starts…
By Orrin Hatch: we should vote to confirm Alito because…he’s a baseball fan. (I admit that it’s his best feature.) But you know who else was a big baseball fan? Harry Blackmun! (Although I’d like to think that a list of greats compiled by Alito would include Henry Aaron instead of, say, Harry Hooper.) So I guess Hatch must think that Roe v. Wade was a solid judicial opinion after all…