WaPo floats Chris Coon as potential Scalia replacement
New Castle County Council to the Supreme Court…? Pundits gotta pund.
THE BUZZ AT THE CAPITOL: “Some hopeful Democrats now see the nomination of a sitting senator as the best chance Obama has to seat another justice on the Supreme Court before leaving office,” Juliet Eilperin and Paul Kane report. “There are several Senate Democrats who fit that description, including Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), Christopher A. Coons (Del.) and Richard J. Durbin (Ill.). But individuals who have spoken with the White House about the nomination process … said the president is interested in a candidate who is young enough to serve an extended period of time. Only two of those senators — Klobuchar, at 55, and Coons, at 52 — are younger than 60, the age Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was when she was nominated.”
Coons, the one-time “bearded Marxist”? Sounds more like a potential nominee by President Bernie.
OTOH, he has become quite the corporaDem, so the Republicans might actually like him.
And imagine the fun we could have here speculating on who Markell might name as his successor.
And the utter chaos that would ensue from the chess board of Delaware politics being upended again as the former Biden seat goes to another special election just 6 years after the first one.
Mayhem
In the universe of things that aren’t going to happen, it sounds like Amy Klobuchar is a little ahead of Coons in this thing.
The Delaware Way needs some constructive mayhem.