Your choice of the AP's 6 listed top candidates for SCOTUS

Although the AP has recently cited sources "familiar with Obama's deliberations" who state that Obama is considering "names that have not triggered public speculation" they list the following candidates. Who would you most like to see on the High Court?

AP article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090514/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obama_supreme_court;_ylt=AsMrrouuA8DlIHcptCG0AQRMEP0E

Real men and real women go on the record.

It goes without saying that President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court should be a person of extraordinary intelligence, integrity and moral vision. And since archconservative justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito are in their 50s, it wouldn't hurt if the first Democratic appointee in fifteen years is relatively young and in good health. It should also go without saying that the president has the prerogative and political capital to nominate a justice who agrees broadly with his interpretation of the Constitution as a document that protects "people who may be vulnerable in the political process, the outsider, the minority...those who don't have a lot of clout" and grants a right to privacy. Luckily, there is no shortage of candidates who meet these criteria.

But what else should President Obama seek in a nominee? We asked a panel of legal experts to name their ideal Supreme Court justice. The selections (printed below and online at TheNation.com) are varied, from acknowledged front-runners to unlikely yet sterling legal advocates. Whomever Obama selects, the nominee will face loud opposition from the right, which has spent decades cultivating a reactionary theory of the Constitution and denigrating anything more enlightened as "legislating from the bench." At stake here are not just decisions on issues like abortion, affirmative action, free speech and gay rights but the very status of the Court as an equal branch of government--the last and most dedicated guardian of the rule of law. During the Bush years, when the president and Congress dispensed with the writ of habeas corpus for detainees, the Court was the only branch of government that refused to go along. Justice Souter voted with the majority in those cases; his replacement should have no less reverence for the law. --The Editors
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/following_souter

pnorman

whether Obama wants to appoint someone with a different perspective (not a judge). I can definitely see the value in having people with different life experiences on the court. It may, however, be easier to get a judge approved since many people feel that should be a qualification. I don't know much about the nominees except for Granholm. She would be a great justice so I would go with her.

I hope Obama makes his pick soon because the GOP will drag out the approval process as long as they can.

Prez O hasn't MET ANY yet (except those he already knows, like Kagan and Napolitano.)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/15/us/politics/AP-US-Obama-Supreme-Court.html

I lean towards Wood or Granholm though.

about Roberts and Alito-types!