Reply #14: If I understand you correctly,

[TPaine7]

you are talking about the future--about candidates who would be nominated by President Obama.

Several things are evident:

1) The nine justices currently on the Court are not eligible to be nominated by President Obama. They are already Justices!

2) There are thousands of people in the US with the requisite intellect and legal scholarship to be nominated and confirmed.

3) The fact is that "almost all the qualified historians and constitutional-law scholars who have studied the subject . The overwhelming weight of authority affirms that the Second Amendment establishes an individual right to bear arms, which is not dependent upon joining something like the National Guard."--Daniel Polsby, Dean of George Mason University School of Law. Certainly among "almost all the qualified constitutional law scholars" there are many liberal scholars who support abortion rights and who are honest enough to interpret the Second Amendment with integrity.

4) Even if item 3 were not a well know fact, to extrapolate from a sample of 9 to thousands of people is, well, less than rigorous methodology. Of course, if you think anything is fair in the service of an anti-gun point...