Bush is expected to announce his nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court at 8 AM today. Alito is currently an appellate judge for the 3rd Circuit, but was not among the judges who ruled on The Circle School v. Pappert.
The Washington Post portrays him as conservative, but not inexorably so, and has this to say about comparisons to the dear Scalia, “His opinions and dissents tend to be dryly analytical rather than slashing.”
I guess we’ll see.