Supreme Disappointment
Thomas Vinciguerra, deputy editor of The Week, is disappointed in Bush's selection of John Roberts -- but his disappointment has nothing to do with politics, but in Bush's decision to replace one judge with another, instead of, say, with Eugene Volokh:

Where is it written that a Supreme Court justice must be plucked from the bench? Sixty of the high court’s 108 occupants hadn’t been sitting judges, and some of the most notable had no judicial experience at all. John Marshall, easily the most influential chief justice in U.S. history, had been a congressman and secretary of state. Roger Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision, had been a Maryland legislator and U.S. attorney general. Charles Evans Hughes, who wrote twice as many opinions as any other justice, previously was governor of New York and secretary of state. And Earl Warren, who revolutionized the court in the 1950s and ’60s, had been governor of California. There’s a lot to be said for candidates who can bring rich life experience to the insulated world of judicial abstraction. At least President Bush will get another chance if Chief Justice William Rehnquist, now battling cancer, steps down. In fact, an off-the-bench replacement would only be appropriate. Before President Nixon tapped him for the high court, Rehnquist was an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department. Though he had never donned a black robe before, he now wears one with four gold stripes.