Former Governor L. Douglas Wilder weighs in this morning in Politico on President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nomination.

Wilder suggests that the real task for Obama is to fill the role that Thurgood Marshall once played on the Court, a justice with a “certain kind of voice” that can prod the conscience of America. 

Wilder is saying publicly what many others have been saying privately. It’s bound to spark a lot of conversation.

Here it is.

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