i'm not too concerned about it since it'd be hard to make the court too much more conservative than it was with scalia. seems like a reasonable pick, tho there isn't much information that i can find on him yet. from what little i have been able to read, he seems utterly uninterested in judicial activism (aka overturning precedent), which is probably good if he sticks to that principle. hope no one else ducks out during the next four years tho