David Yalof
David Yalof
David Alistair Yalof is an American academic. He is Professor and Department Head of the Political Science department at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in constitutional law, judicial politics and executive branch politics. His books include Pursuit of Justices, which NBC News called "the definitive book on post-World War II Supreme Court nominees"...
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What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,
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Circulating names on a short list creates a pre-vetting process, so they can at least know what to expect,
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There was one person who kind of stood up and was willing to test the standard and it didn't work out well for him. And thus the lesson was learned for all future nominees, and I suspect for John Roberts as well.
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He did it by choosing carefully the doctrine of judicial restraint. You see it in the cases the court hears, and showing the way with his brand of leadership.
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When the history of the Rehnquist court is written, it will be about a justice who moved the court in a conservative direction, but in a way that did not tear the court apart.