Ed Whelan over at Bench Memos offers some thoughts on the possibility that Homeland Security Secretary (and chief immigration honcho) Janet Napolitano could be nominated to replace Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court. He describes how she’d check off a whole bunch of diversity boxes for the administration, and also why her record should be a cause for concern.

But if she does get the nod, she’d be stupid to turn it down. It’s not just that the job is obviously better than what she has now; in addition, J-Nap needs to get while the gettin’ is good. DHS head is a job surrounded by landmines in the best of times; but when the left wing and the Hispanic chauvinist groups start to go ballistic next year over the failure of The One to deliver an amnesty, the White House is going to need a fall guy. And J-Nap has that target painted on her back as long as she stays at DHS and is the administration’s point man on immigration. The sooner she declares victory and changes jobs, the less mud will stick to her when the irate open-borders tranzis look for someone to blame.