Wondering what a Justice Palin might say about sentencing jurisprudence?

In this post a few weeks ago, I thought out-loud about the (real?) possibility of a President Obama nominating Senator Clinton to fill an opening on the Supreme Court.  Now, thanks to this Newsweek article from Dahlia Lithwick titled "Put Palin on the Supreme Court: Washington's old-boy problem hardly ends at the Oval Office," I cannot help but wonder what a Justice Palin might think about Apprendi, Blakely and Booker.  While I doubt we can expect to see both a Justice Clinton and a Justice Palin on the Supreme Court anytime soon, here is one snippet from Dahlia's piece that has me rooting for such a Court:

[W]hile our contempt for the Washington life touches everyone in the legislative and executive branches, it's become almost a job requirement at the Supreme Court.  This third branch of government is wildly overrepresented by insider lawyers with identical résumés.  You can swap out one Ivy League law school for another, but beyond that, the bench is ever more populated by folks like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito — brilliant men whose chief job experience consisted of work for the executive branch followed by a stint on the federal bench.  It's not that these are bad qualities in a jurist. It's just that a court that once included governors and senators and former football stars is now overrun by an elite cadre of mostly male, mostly East Coast lawyers. If ever there were a branch of government crying out for varying life experiences, it's the Supreme Court.  And if any branch of government is in need of a mother of five who likes shooting wolves from helicopters, the court is it.

Though most of Dahlia's piece is a tongue-in-cheek (and perhaps unfair) slam on Governor Palin, the portion above justifiably notes extreme lack of true diversity on the Supreme Court.  Indeed, it is for this reason that I have urged in many prior posts a different perspective on possible SCOTUS nominees (and it is why I was one (and the only one?) who actually applauded President Bush's unexpected decision to nominate Harriet Miers to the Court).

Some related posts:

• Reflections on the politics of SCOTUS and personhood of its members
• Judging, politics, sentencing and elections
• Will the next SCOTUS nominee have any criminal law background?
• Brave New Justice and sentencing issues
• Does SCOTUS need a trial judge?
• Developing a SCOTUS short list of district court judges
• Insider myopia and the diverse benefits of a short bench
• Thinking creatively about different SCOTUS short lists
• Wondering what a Justice Clinton might say about sentencing jurisprudence?

Postscript:  Anyone who might respond to this post by noting that Governor Palin is not a lawyer should be sure to check out the this article by Professor Adrian Vermeule, who argues that the Surpeme Court should have at least one "lay Justice" -- i.e., he contends that "an historian, economist, doctor, accountant, soldier or some other nonlawyer professional should be appointed to the Court."