Gonzales=Secret Code for Hispanic Nominee?
Wonkette has this morning's White House pool report in which President Bush jokingly (perhaps) seems to throw Alberto Gonzales' name back into the SCOTUS mix. (Then again, Bush was sitting directly across from the AG when he made his remark about "looking right at" him.)
But could this actually be a tip-off that a Hispanic nominee really is on the way? I tend to doubt that it will be Gonzales himself, given the hackles his potential nomination originally raised on the right. (See here, here, and here, for starters.) So I will keep my Martinez mini-boomlet precariously afloat.
I think the chances of this president naming a nominee to the left of Roberts are virtually nil. But perhaps friendship and loyalty will trump the once-in-a-generation chance to steer the court hard to starboard.