Ruth Bader Ginsburg has some advice for Bush on whom to appoint to replace Sandra Day O'Connor.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience Wednesday that she doesn't like the idea of being the only female justice on the Supreme Court. But in choosing to fill one of the two open positions on the court, "any woman will not do," she said.

There are "some women who might be appointed who would not advance human rights or women's rights," Ginsburg told those gathered at the New York City Bar Association.

....Ginsburg stressed that the president should appoint a "fine jurist," adding that there are many women who fit that description.

"I have a list of highly qualified women, but the president has not consulted me," she added during a brief interview Wednesday night.

It strikes me as a new thing to have a sitting justice to state publicly what she or he is looking for in a new nominee. I can't remember that happening before, but, of course, there are a lot of these nominee fights that I would have been too young to have paid attention to. It just seems a bad practice to have them making such public statements.