Sanders: McConnell wrong on SCOTUS block (update)

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15. A real Page turner...

I’d like to put forth the name of Alan Page to replace Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. It has been far too long since we had a former football star on the High Court. (Byron “Whizzer” White passed away more than a decade ago.) But Page wouldn’t bring just NFL All-Star credentials to the job. He’s black, you know, and would go a long way toward providing the Court with the sort of racial balance that reflects that of the entire nation – while at the same time providing a counterbalance for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas’s unquestioning approach to the cases that come before the Court. As a bonus, Page has had a distinguished career on the Minnesota Supreme Court, where he not only was an Associate Justice but a member of the three-judge panel that heard the election contest brought by Norm Coleman in 2008. And as an added bonus, he’d save taxpayer dollars because he already owns a black robe.