From a reader:

Jonah,
Since you don’t know me from Adam, you couldn’t possibly care about my opinion, but I’ll relay it to you anyway. You are dead right about Mahoney being the best female qualified for SCOTUS. In fact, she would be my first choice regardless of gender, race and any other suspect class. Before going “in-house” I practiced at Weil, Gotshal and worked with several Latham lawyers over 8-9 years. I came in contact with Maureen more than once. She is a brilliant lawyer and commands a great deal of respect from a set of lawyers that tend not to dish out many compliments to their peers at other firms. I know of her politics and judicial philosophy only by inference from her clerkship with Rehnquist and stint under Starr. That may not be dispositive but gets me there in light of personal dealings and reputation from those who’ve seen her work up front.