ANN ALTHOUSE on Supreme Court nominees:

Presidents should not use trivial, political grounds to select the person who will interpret the law for us all for a generation. That we ought to see as an outrage — a shocking abuse of power. But “the person with the biggest brain”? I know a lot of big-brained people in law. I’m not sure which one has the biggest brain. Maybe we could sit them in a room and grill them with a series of tests. But there’s a damned good chance the person with the biggest brain would be a disaster on the Court.

Yes.