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Okay, let’s have a show of hands here: How many of you progressives want Obama to nominate a moderate to take Scalia’s seat? Because the Supreme Court should always be comprised only of arch-conservatives and a few moderates. How many want a former prosecutor, on the theory that the federal bench does not already have enough former prosecutors, and because the Supreme Court is just toooo pro-non-white-collar criminal defendant and tooo favorable to civil rights plaintiffs involved in the criminal-justice system?

…awesome accomplishments, are Jeffrey Fisher, the head of Stanford Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic, and Robert L. Wilkins, an Obama appointee on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Fisher is…