S.Ct. Battles

The Wall Street Journal has a good overview of what's important--historically and currently--in Bush's justice selection. Link. From the conclusion:

But the larger goal should be to pick someone who has the intellectual conviction and firepower to help restore the High Court to its more restrained historical role. In a phrase, this means putting an end at last to the judicial legislating that was unleashed in the Warren era and that has slowed only on occasion ever since.