The most popular response to our first question was the property rights case Didden v. Port Chester, in which Sotomayor affirmed a lower court's ruling by applying the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London. (The New York Times has more on the Didden case here.)

On the second question, the most popular choice was Judiciary ranking member Jeff Sessions as the senator most likely to subject the nominee to tough questioning.

See responses after the jump.

Poll respondents were: Tony Mauro, National Law Journal reporter; Dahlia Lithwick, Slate senior editor; Paul Cassell, University of Utah law professor and Volokh Conspiracy blogger; Tom Goldstein, founder of SCOTUSblog and Supreme Court litigator at Akin Gump; William Marshall, University of North Carolina law professor; Doug Kendall, founder and president of the Constitutional Accountability Center; Cristina Rodriguez, New York University law professor; Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University provost; Bradley Joondeph, Santa Clara University law professor; Carl Tobias, University of Richmond law professor; and National Journal's own Stuart Taylor Jr. In order to encourage frank and open speculation, contributors were given anonymity.

Great posting!

It might be worth noting in a later article that some conservatives are already claiming this to be some monumental or extraordinary rebuke, despite the fact that Alito had 4 reversals!