What will Election Day bring for our courts?

Everyone is so stressed out.

More than any other election that I have ever seen.

I'm surprised that very little has been said about the future of the Supreme Court, and of course the lower courts.  That's a top 5 issue for me.  

Speaking about the courts, check out this story about Ed Carnes' confirmation, which has a Sonia Sotomayor twist:

So after the Left launched its ugly, unfounded attack on Eleventh Circuit nominee Ed Carnes, how did Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama (then still a Democrat) strong-arm his fellow Democrats to win confirmation of Carnes’s nomination?

The curious answer is that Shelby threatened to block three other judicial nominations made by President George H.W. Bush.

Why would Shelby’s threat have any force with Democratic senators? Because Bush made those nominations at the behest of individual Democratic senators—and indeed, in the case of a 37-year-old district-court nominee by the name of Sonia Sotomayor, in the face of grave concerns held by White House lawyers.