First Monday

Here come the Supremes -- and as we turn to the month on the calendar where eight (well, nine, until tonight anyway) cities are focused more on other groups of nine contesting the baseball playoffs, the Supreme Court will begin its session today. Many big cases are on tap; for the best coverage anywhere, take a leap past Linda Greenhouse at the NYT and go straight to the recently redesigned SCOTUS blog. If the law is as interesting to you as it is to me, you'll enjoy the read.

Which brings me to my main point for today. I have no brief for the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, except for McCain, who probably won't win. In fact, if it ends up being

Giuliani vs. HRC, there isn't much difference on policy positions and on intangibles I would probably prefer Hillary.

But, I would have to vote for Rudy in that case. The most important difference is that Rudy will appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will respect the Constitution and the other branches of government for the next 20 years. Hillary will appoint justices who will rewrite the constitution to achieve their policy objectives. That is more important than anything else, in my opinion.