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(Jennifer) Granholm Possible Souter Replacemment
Wood TV ^ | 05/01/09 | MARK SHERMAN and JENNIFER LOVEN

Posted on 05/01/2009 5:29:17 AM PDT by rintense

WASHINGTON (AP) - Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm is among those possibly considered to replace Justice David Souter who is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama's first pick for the high court is likely to be a liberal-leaning nominee, much like Souter.

The White House has been told that Souter will retire in June, when the court finishes its work for the summer, a source familiar with his plans said Thursday night. The retirement is likely to take effect only once a successor is confirmed.

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TOPICS: Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhojudicialnominees; bhoscotus; granholm; michigan; scotus; souter
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God help us. Can she be named if she was born in Canada?
1 posted on 05/01/2009 5:29:17 AM PDT by rintense
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To: rintense

Not only that, she is grossly incompetent. Michigan is a mess.


2 posted on 05/01/2009 5:30:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: rintense

We won’t get rid of Mrs. Indecisive that easily. She’s not done “blowing away” the state of Michigan.


3 posted on 05/01/2009 5:30:16 AM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: rintense
Then their would definitely be a leftist mole on the Supreme Court....

That is funny if you are from MI...

4 posted on 05/01/2009 5:31:53 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: rintense
President Barack Obama's first pick for the high court is likely to be a liberal-leaning nominee, much like Souter.

Likely?

Talk about weak journalism!

5 posted on 05/01/2009 5:32:06 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: rintense

Three words: Justice Bernadine Dorhn.


6 posted on 05/01/2009 5:32:28 AM PDT by Old Sarge ("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
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To: rintense
That would be insane. She's never been a judge and has never shown any experience in any sort of con law. Four years as attorney general and being Wayne County counsel does not prepare one for SCOTUS.

Granholm would be the Harriet Miers of the left.

7 posted on 05/01/2009 5:33:38 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Buckley, Brooks, Parker - You supported Obama, so shut up and take your screwing)
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To: AppyPappy

Michigan is in the toilet. And Gov. Jennifer Granholm has not done anything to help the situation.
She is about what one expects from this assclown obamma lamma.


8 posted on 05/01/2009 5:34:52 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (yEP,i)
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To: rintense

Rintense, she doesn’t need to be a natural-born citizen, a judge, or even a lawyer. She just needs to be confirmed by the Senate.


9 posted on 05/01/2009 5:35:06 AM PDT by kalt
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To: rintense
Can she be named if she was born in Canada?

That doesn't appear to matter with anything anymore.

We have president who may or may not legally hold the office, senators being nominated for positions they're constitutionally ineligible to hold, and a secretary of state who holds an office of "iffy" constitutional legality.
10 posted on 05/01/2009 5:35:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: AppyPappy
Not only that, she is grossly incompetent. Michigan is a mess.

Amen to that, Peter principle at it's extreme.

11 posted on 05/01/2009 5:36:50 AM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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To: taildragger

From a democrat point of view Granholm would be ideal.

They won’t really lose a democrat governor because Gub’ner Jenni is term limited and is soon to go anyway.


12 posted on 05/01/2009 5:39:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: AppyPappy

Maybe she’ll do for the USSC what she’s done for Michigan?

blame Canada!

(this woman has scary eyes...cold...she’s a committed ideologue)


13 posted on 05/01/2009 5:40:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
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To: Darren McCarty

It’s not like Obama has any vast experience in anything and he is after all President of the United States.


14 posted on 05/01/2009 5:41:08 AM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: Old Sarge
Justice Hillary Rodham Rodham.
15 posted on 05/01/2009 5:42:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Kieri

That sounds like a lot of men :)P


16 posted on 05/01/2009 5:42:22 AM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: AppyPappy

In this age of 0bama those are considered assets.


17 posted on 05/01/2009 5:47:43 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Niuhuru

And Bacrock is FUBARing this entire country.


18 posted on 05/01/2009 5:49:17 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Buckley, Brooks, Parker - You supported Obama, so shut up and take your screwing)
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To: rintense

I seriously doubt this. She is the wrong color.


19 posted on 05/01/2009 5:52:31 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: rintense

I heard this last night ... and wanted to scream. :( From bad to worse in 0.3


20 posted on 05/01/2009 5:56:45 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan (Does CNN have to wear a condom when covering 0bama or do they carry one, "just in case"?)
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To: Darren McCarty
Granholm would be the Harriet Miers of the left.

Probably... except she'd breeze through confirmation on roller skates. Democrats are sycophants and sheep. Whatever the messiah says, goes.

That's going to be true no matter who he selects, up to and including Bernardine Dohrn.

21 posted on 05/01/2009 5:59:07 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Bob Buchholz

“She is the wrong color.”

Wrong religion as well.


22 posted on 05/01/2009 6:02:32 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Support the 10th. Ammendment and become a Neo-terrorist.)
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To: rintense
President Barack Obama's first pick for the high court is likely to be a liberal-leaning nominee, much like Souter.

Ya think?

23 posted on 05/01/2009 6:04:12 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: rintense

Granholm kayaked in Lake Superior a few years back in a campaign stunt and she asked which side of the paddle was the left side and was disappointed that she didn’t see any penguins.

When sighting a Coast Guard vessel in the distance, Granholm queried her guide on whether the ship was carrying iron ore from Minnesota. When told “No” she said that’s good because she didn’t want it to sink like the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Titanic did in Lake Superior back in 1975. When told the Titanic didn’t sink in Lake Superior, she expressed surprise and asked if it’s still hauling iron ore from Minnesota.


24 posted on 05/01/2009 6:17:14 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: rintense

This is a no-brainer. Valerie Jarret goes to the SCOTUS. Granholm ^might^ replace her as WH Counsel.


25 posted on 05/01/2009 6:22:54 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: rintense

Here’s one that will make your heart stop...

Michelle Obama to the SCOTUS.


26 posted on 05/01/2009 6:25:33 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
That's going to be true no matter who he selects, up to and including Bernardine Dohrn.

Heck, he could appoint the first Duet Judge Team- Dohrn & Ayers together

27 posted on 05/01/2009 6:29:48 AM PDT by Knute
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To: Joe Boucher

It’s called the Peter Principle.


28 posted on 05/01/2009 6:34:27 AM PDT by Cathy
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To: rintense

I am not a bit surprised. She fits in perfectly with the rest of bo’s low calibre appointees.

Will God ever stop this madness?

Or will we simply have to endure this liberal reign, unchecked, no oversight, no controls... as it destroys America?


29 posted on 05/01/2009 6:38:28 AM PDT by jackv (Just shakin' my head!!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’ll up you one: Bill Clinton


30 posted on 05/01/2009 6:40:37 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

<< Justice Hillary Rodham Rodham.

Justice Perez Hilton


31 posted on 05/01/2009 6:47:16 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ./base)
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To: rintense
I’ll up you one: Bill Clinton

Scary indeed, but you'd think bambi would pick someone younger & healthier.

32 posted on 05/01/2009 6:49:17 AM PDT by laker_dad
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To: rintense

Oh wow. That’s a dilemma. It will get her out of Michigan which she’s ruined. But it will give her a chance to do potentially more damage. I think Michigan is going to have to take one for the team and keep her here.


33 posted on 05/01/2009 6:49:28 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: rintense

Nah...that one isn’t that scary. He’ll just use the post to scare up more p-—y.


34 posted on 05/01/2009 6:56:56 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: rintense

Anything to get her out of Michigan.


35 posted on 05/01/2009 6:57:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: dfwgator

But not this. No way. Bringing Michigan destruction to the Constitution? No thanks.


36 posted on 05/01/2009 7:04:11 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: rintense

Wouldn’t it just be replacing one liberal justice with another?


37 posted on 05/01/2009 7:05:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: grellis

ping


38 posted on 05/01/2009 7:06:59 AM PDT by magslinger (The first dog has papers but the President doesn't. How interesting!-cubsfanconswoman)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, but a stupid, insipid Canadian? Come one! ;) She’s done as governor anyway due to term limits.


39 posted on 05/01/2009 7:07:19 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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that should be ‘come on!’. Coffee hasn’t kicked in yet.


40 posted on 05/01/2009 7:07:58 AM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: Darren McCarty

“Four years as attorney general and being Wayne County counsel does not prepare one for SCOTUS.”

A few years as a community organizer and about 3 years as an unaccomplished senator got us our current POTUS. He never as much managed a lemonade stand.


41 posted on 05/01/2009 7:17:31 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: grellis

ping


42 posted on 05/01/2009 7:24:42 AM PDT by magslinger (The first dog has papers but the President doesn't. How interesting!-cubsfanconswoman)
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To: rintense

OH GOD NO! She is young and will be on the SCOUS for a very long time. And I am in Michigan. Let her die here. PLease.


43 posted on 05/01/2009 7:54:16 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
This is a no-brainer. Valerie Jarret goes to the SCOTUS. Granholm ^might^ replace her as WH Counsel.
I think you're right. Barry would love to appoint her. But with her scant legal career I don't *think* she'd even get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee for a floor vote (1).

Plus, tThe RATS may be dumb but they ain't STOO-PID. Even they couldn't take being 'controlled' by a SCOTUS justice whose nothing but a Chicago Political Hack.

an aside: What I'm waiting for is Morris Dees name to pop up as a possible nominee. That commie maggot would be perfect for Barry - their goals are the same - Destroy the USA as we know it.

(1) Arlen's jump actually helps Republicans America in that respect, the RATS need one 'R' vote on the Judiciary Committee to move someone out.

44 posted on 05/01/2009 8:01:56 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Condor51

And...as others have already pointed out, Valerie has the correct amount of melanin.


45 posted on 05/01/2009 8:10:49 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: rintense

867-5309

“Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to..............”


46 posted on 05/01/2009 8:13:04 AM PDT by Highway55
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To: grellis; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

This is just a tease.


47 posted on 05/01/2009 8:46:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
And...as others have already pointed out, Valerie has the correct amount of melanin.

Yep, you're right.
Its disgusting when that becomes a 'qualification' for the Supreme Court - or anything.

48 posted on 05/01/2009 9:14:08 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Condor51

Rush is really stuck on Sotomayor as the pick. Maybe but if recent history has its say, we could see a
Sotomayor pick -> Sotomayor scandal -> Sotomayor withdrawl -> Jarret pick.

Unless Opossum goes hardline, a la Geithner.


49 posted on 05/01/2009 9:51:00 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: queenkathy; madison10; Mark was here; Gosh I love this neighborhood; MaryFromMichigan; ...

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.


50 posted on 05/01/2009 10:12:28 AM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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