# Judge Easterbrook for the Supreme Court **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759 "2005-07-01T21:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Erwin\_Chemerinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Erwin\_Chemerinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erwin_Chemerinsky)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/1 "2005-07-01T21:04:22Z")
Do you think there is any possibility of the Judge Easterbrook of the 7th Circuit making it to the Court to replace Justice O’Connor? He is a conservative (upheld late-term abortion) and is a textualist. And he shares something with O’Connor that should be important when selecting her replacement - a strong pro-business viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/2 "2005-07-01T21:19:27Z")
That’d be lovely, but I don’t think either Posner nor Easterbrook have a shot. Neither of them has felt the need to be circumspect when disagreeing with the Administration. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/3 "2005-07-01T21:36:48Z")
Also, neither of them has a vagina. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/4 "2005-07-01T21:45:40Z")
I don’t think is necessarily going to be the XX seat, because there is another woman on the Court. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/5 "2005-07-01T22:11:25Z")
So, then, do we go for a [cripple](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt) now? I am so, SO sorry. I couldn’t stop myself. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/6 "2005-07-15T19:41:57Z")
Judge Frank Easterbrook is a very smart, generally very conservative guy (I met him in law school, BTW). So is his colleague on the 7th Circuit, Judge Richard Posner. However, each is just smart enough that he actually thinks for himself, doesn’t always toe the hard-right line, and doesn’t always agree with whatever Uncle Sam wants to do. These are very likely to disqualify them, in the eyes of the Bush White House, from every being named to the U.S. Supreme Court. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-easterbrook-for-the-supreme-court/310759/7 "2005-07-15T19:42:17Z")
Judge Frank Easterbrook is a very smart, generally very conservative guy (I met him in law school, BTW). So is his colleague on the 7th Circuit, Judge Richard Posner. However, each is just smart enough that he actually thinks for himself, doesn’t always toe the hard-right line, and doesn’t always agree with whatever Uncle Sam wants to do. These are very likely to disqualify them, in the eyes of the Bush White House, from ever being named to the U.S. Supreme Court.