President Bush has nominated Judge Chertoff to be the next Homeland Security secretary.

Last year, Chertoff made Late Final's list of the Top 10 Conservatives Liberals Can Like.

MORE: Michelle Malkin says Chertoff's nomination is a good thing. Drudge is referring to him as a "Clinton nemesis" because Chertoff was Republican counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee. (The Whitewater investigation led to no charges against then-President Clinton or his wife, if you recall.)

Chertoff (then the U.S. attorney in Newark) also threw New York's top Republican judge, Sol Wachtler, behind bars in a bizarre stalking case; at the time, Wachtler appeared on the fast track toward the governorship and national GOP prominence.