Congratulations to Sheldon Gilbert, who has been selected by the Federalist Society’s board of directors to become the organization’s new president. Sheldon has the awesome challenge of succeeding the extraordinary Eugene Meyer, who has headed the organization for more than four decades.

I know most of the other reported finalists, like and admire them greatly, and would have also been delighted to see any of them selected.

I believe that I’ve known Sheldon for more than a decade. He’s extremely smart, intellectually curious, immensely likeable, and very funny. (I’m sorry to see that his hilarious Twitter thread on frozen Whoppers has disappeared from Twitter. Let’s just say that Burger King is unlikely to become the official hamburger supplier of the Federalist Society.) The board obviously determined that he has lots of other fine qualities that suit him for the position.