Volume 38, Number 16 · October 10, 1991
'The Best Man'
By Murray Kempton
It has become President Bush's habit never to anoint a Supreme Court justice without announcing that once more he has picked 'the best man for the job on the merits' and thus further deepening the mystery of how he found him. Mr. Justice-designate Clarence Thomas and Mr. Justice David Souter both abide curiously beyond informed criticism. Their qualities are unknown; their careers are so undistinguished as to be barren of offense; and, beyond the personal, their merits appear chiefly conspicuous for an absence of demerits.
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