Ronaldus Magnus will be smiling down, giving a thumbs UP to Dubya for doing him such an honor!
Posted on 05/20/2005 11:38:03 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Others with close White House connections say a short list is well into development.
"There's a normal process that the White House has definitely been pursuing for at least six months where they are soliciting views and recommendations," said Samuel B. Casey, executive director of the Christian Legal Society (CLS). "We have submitted our views."
Said one top Republican official with close ties to the White House: "The same four or five or six names keep coming up. I'm sure they have a short list already."
Top administration and White House officials -- including Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Solicitor General Theodore Olson and White House Counsel Harriet Miers, President Bush's longtime adviser and former personal lawyer -- are involved in the early process, according to several sources close to the White House.
Having seen President Reagan's ill-fated nomination of Robert H. Bork to the top court -- which dragged on for months and allowed opposition to mobilize against him -- the Bush administration is not uttering a word about who may be considered.
"They're very careful at the White House, so I don't know whose views besides ours that they're soliciting," Mr. Casey said.
The Christian Legal Society, he said, has "made it known to the White House who we believe are our top three most qualified candidates consistent with the president's stated views that he is looking for judges who faithfully interpret the law, not legislate from the bench."
Judge Michael W. McConnell on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is top of the list for CLS, a 42-year-old, 3,400-member nonprofit group that says its mission is "to do justice with the love of God."
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The President should nominate anyone he chooses, but he should also make a recess-appointment of Judge Bork, while they're waiting on the Senate to read the Constitution.
Send Alberto Gonzales out on a pizza or donut run. Better yet, have him go catch some terrorists.
Let Ted Olson choose the judges. I trust him.
I'm all for a recess appointment for someone like Bork, but wouldn't Bush have to wait for an actual recess before making a recess appointment?
Ronaldus Magnus will be smiling down, giving a thumbs UP to Dubya for doing him such an honor!
Well yes, but they do take a number of recesses during the year.
Janice Rogers Brown.
With you. Sure would like to see Jim Buckley on a list.
Nam Vet
Answer: Gonzales.
Since you lost out on being Pope, here's an open gig for you. You get to flirt with Ruthie but you'll have to bring your own bathrobe since all they supply is basic black. If you need more dinero you get off early and can deliver pizza at night. Lazamataz for Chief Justice!
Correction: Pope Lazamataz for Chief Justice.
Well, he'd be a better choice than Johnny Cochrane.
If Spector and Hagel vote against the nuclear option Harry Reid, Schumer, and Ted Kennedy will have all the power to approve what judges are acceptable. And Reid said Bush should pick a Souter.
A Schumer staffer was quoted as saying McConnell would be unacceptable along with edith jones and the other 5 names floated around. They are too conservative for Chuckie even though they would be replacing a conservative like Rehnquist.
That traitor Spector is the worst of the worst.
What's Bork's age?
How about Ted Olson's age?
I know, I'll ping kcvl.
If Bork were put in via a recess appointment, his age wouldn't be a factor, as such an appointment is only temporary.
Would Bork, once there, be able to be ousted by the Senate if Dubya insists on sending nothing but more hardballs to the Senate that the Senate refuses to get unfilibustered about? I'd think that if 40 Pubbies have enough of a spine they could turn a filibuster around the other way.
Don't insult Laz by trying to insuinuate him upon such a low-class bunch.
"Captain America" aka.Judge Roy S.Moore.Would be my choice for Chief Justice of the US S.Ct. But Bush prefers appeasement to doing what is right. And has chosen the
compromised Catholic Wm.Pryor over the controversial Captain
America.
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