Sources seem to now be confirming that it is John Roberts.

UPDATE: Drudge also is saying its Roberts, man, I wanted it to be Brown, that would have been fun. Fox says this too.

UPDATE: Roberts: ‘No support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution’ for legal reasoning in Roe vs Wade… (from Drudge)

oh and by the way, we beat Drudge… woot.

UPDATE: Read on Roberts here.

WHY IT SHOULD BE JRB JUST READ THIS.

Janice Rogers Brown on natural law
We continue to chip away at the foundations of our success. We dismissed natural law and morality because its unverifiable judgments were deemed inferior to reason. But, then, we drove reason itself from the camp because the most significant of life’s questions defy empiricism. …Only natural law offers an alternative to might makes right and accounts for man’s “unrelenting quest to rise above the ‘letter of the law’ to the realm of the spirit.” [IFJ speech at 15, 17]

Its times like these that I remember, atleast somewhat, why I originally wanted to be in DC. The rumors are flying fast and furious and from what I can distill it will be from a list of four: Owen, Clement, Brown, Jones, with Clement being the most likely. Justice Janice Rogers Brown would be the grand slam as far as I am concerned though.

UPDATE: RedState via ABCNews is stating that Clement is not the pick… if true that would leave us with Owen, Brown, or Jones and I would take any of them. Though I am still pulling for JRB.

UPDATE: Luttig and JRB are reported to be in and around the DC area today for sure, which maybe gives a little more credence to one of them being selected. Come on JRB!!!

UPDATE: Several sources now on different blogs are saying Jones is out but Roberts is in which would give us the following field: Brown, Owen, Roberts, Luttig.

UPDATE: Roberts is in London apparently, and the President said that the nominee would be at the WH for the announcement. This would make the field Brown, Owen, and Luttig, but the talk is now swirling back towards Clement, which means no one has any clue what is going on. LoL. For the record I am betting Luttig but hoping JRB.

I wanted to open up a thread in response to Rep. Tom Tancredo (a personal hero of mine, though I disagree with his comments) comments that we should bomb Mecca if the US is hit with a nuclear attack.

My two-cents: I think the comments are irresponsible, but they do belie the fact that the US needs to develop a policy of how it will react to a nuclear strike carried out by islamic extremists. One of the pillars going *poof*… well that’s probably not going to be very condusive to our cause.