[TheTopRead]

Oh what a great day that would be!!!

[Paladin2]

Finally, some stratergy.

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox News has reported that there will be no announcement today.

[infidel29]

Put that in your democratic pipe...er... bong and smoke it!

[USPatriette]

It would be a terrible idea. Exploitation of a woman's death, a transparent political ploy -- and it would be called that, loudly.

[Lancey Howard]

Awesome post! BIG BUMP!!!

[COEXERJ145]

Considering how many rumors there are floating around right now, take it with a serious dose of salt.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

That would be disgusting... like Wellstone's funeral.

[monkapotamus]

[Candor7]

Janice R. Brown Resumé ----------------------------------------------------------- Birth: May 11, 1949 Greenville, Alabama Legal Residence: California Education: 1967 - 1969 California State University 1972 - 1974 B.A. degree 1974 - 1977 University of California School of Law J.D. degree 2002 - 2004 University of Virginia School of Law LL.M. degree Bar Admittance: 1977 California Military: 1977 - 1979 Legislative Counsel Bureau Deputy Legislative Counsel Experience: 1979 - 1987 California Department of Justice Attorney General’s Office Deputy Attorney General 1987 - 1990 State of California Business, Transportation & Housing Agency Deputy Secretary & General Counsel 1990 - 1991 Nielsen, Merksamer, Parinello, Mueller & Naylor Senior Associate 1991 - 1994 Governor Pete Wilson’s Office Legal Affairs Secretary 1994 - 1996 California Court of Appeals for the Third District Associate Justice 1998 - 1999 University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Adjunct Professor 1996 - present California Supreme Court Associate Justice

[MadIvan]

If he does that, I will be truly impressed. Game, set, match, W.

Regards, Ivan

[sinkspur]

No one who has been filibustered will be nominated. Period.

Besides, this will look like cheap theatrics.

[Neets]

Ok, what did you do with Pukin Dog?

[GianniV]

According to Ted Kennedy, black women are NOT suppose to be successful. They are suppose to have 8 children out of wedlock and smoke crack all day long.

Thus, she's unfit to serve.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The timing may be off, but the symbolic connection would be perfect. If nominated soon, the moment wouldn't be lost. The left would destroy itself trying to destroy JRB or her nomination. No matter where they turn, they detonate one of their own PC landmines.

[Neenah]

JRB in case you missed it !

[MNJohnnie]

There will be no announcement tonight. They will make it tomorrow at the earliest so the Talk Radio hosts get 1st shot at setting the media template. WH will definitely be looking for a favorable response put out by Talk Radio before the knee jerk hostility in the Dinosaur Media gets geared up. Get our people talking about the facts instead of merely responding to the DNC spin like they usually do.

Plus as ticked as W must be on the Libby slime job, I am sure he has no qualms about tormenting the self-imporant waste of DNA that inhabits todays Press rooms. One of the lads fault don't you know, overdeveloped sense of justice.

[MikefromOhio]

some on this thread are saying that nominating JRB is pandering?

Well sure it would be, but if you can get the person in there that is well-qualified, WHY the hell NOT?

[publiusF27]

I was skeptical at the nomination of Justice Thomas, because I figured Bush was just looking for a black man, first and foremost.

I still think he was just looking for a black man, but I can't say I'm displeased with the result in that case.

[bigsigh]

If JRB is the nominee, the announcement will come after the burial.

[Diago]

I think this blogger started the rumor:

October 30, 2005

Is it Alito, Luttig or ... Brown?

Continuing the buzz that emerged on Friday, there is a lot of talk in the newspapers and the blogosphere about Sam Alito and Michael Luttig as the two front-runners for a SCOTUS nomination.  The blogosphere buzz around these two folks is especially interesting over at confirmthem and this post at UTR; Lyle Denniston here at SCOTUSblog suggests we might be getting a nominee within the next 24 hours.

Article 3 Groupie speculates that all the Alito buzz may be a head fake on the way to a Luttig nomination.  But I have a different theory: Could all the Alito and Luttig buzz be a misdirection on the way to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown? 

This article reports that President Bush "and First Lady Laura Bush were scheduled to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony this evening honoring late civil rights activist Rosa Parks."  Wouldn't it be an incredible moment of political theater and strategy to announce the SCOTUS nomination of Brown at this event?  The President could describe Brown as the judicial equivalent of Rosa Parks, and framing the nomination in such terms would, I think, greatly impact the political dynamics and debate surrounding this nomination.

A few related posts:

• Serious Justice Alito buzz
• The SCOTUS name game
• Miers is out, who's next?
• A criminal law perspective on Janice Rogers Brown
• Will the next SCOTUS nominee have any criminal law background?
• Does SCOTUS need a trial judge?