By Debbie Schlussel
. . . You’ll Loooove Barack Obama’s Supreme Court:

Thomas C. Goldstein is co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practice of the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and a founder of Scotusblog.com. He said he thinks Sen. Barack Obama will nominate a woman and probably a minority:
“Men need not apply. If Barack Obama can’t improve on the Harriet Miers debacle, then he should give up on judicial nominations entirely.”
Goldstein’s choices, in order of likelihood, and comments:

1. Sonia Sotomayor, 54, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Would be the first Hispanic justice.
2. Diane P. Wood, 58, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. The strongest intellect; the oldest.
3. Elena Kagan, 48, dean, Harvard Law School. The youngest; has the respect of conservatives for her Harvard faculty hiring.
4. Leah Ward Sears, 53, chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court. African American.
5. Jennifer M. Granholm, 49, governor of Michigan. Political experience and a former state attorney general. A Clinton supporter; stood in for McCain running mate Sarah Palin in Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s debate preparation.

Yes, not only did Jennifer Granholm–or as we like to call her, “Gran-HO”–preside over an increasingly rapid decline of Michigan, but her legal credentials are an issue. Sources say that she spent most of her time as an Assistant U.S. Attorney on maternity and sick leave.
And then there’s that issue, news of which I broke on this site: Federal Judge Gerald Rosen confirmed to me that while Granholm was an Assistant U.S. Attorney, she stole his official stationery and forged his name to a letter which she sent.
Would love to see her answers to Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on this: impersonating a federal official, forgery, theft, etc., etc., etc. Just what we need on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Oh, and by the way, she’s a pan-Islamist. Granholm, while Michigan Attorney General, was investigating and raided ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, for Medicaid fraud–for its role in bringing pregnant Muslim aliens into America and giving them fraudulent Social Security numbers to get Medicaid to cover the births of their Islamist anchor babies. (Her successor, Mike Cox, has also pandered to ACCESS and screwed up the investigation, on which he’s since put the kabosh. He’s running for Governor, after all.)
But, at the time, Gran-HO was running for Governor and wanted the Arab vote. So she failed to prosecute ACCESS and made its chief, Ismael Ahmed, head of her transition team. Then, she appointed Ahmed head of the Michigan Department of Human Services, which oversees Medicaid. Yup, she anointed the fox head of the henhouse to screw Michigan taxpayers.
Oh, one other thing: Other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, Granholm is the only Governor who has been a contestant on “The Dating Game”, when she was trying to become an actress. GUH-REAT candidate for the Supreme Court.
As much as I’d love to dump her from Michigan, G-d help us if she’s on the Supreme Court.