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Potential Nominees to the Supreme Court (according to NARAL)

During his second term, President George W. Bush may have the opportunity to nominate two, three, or even four justices to the Supreme Court. Their decisions may affect the lives of Americans for generations to come. The list of potential Supreme Court nominees reveals a group that is hostile, not only to women’s reproductive rights, but to a variety of civil and constitutional rights.

Samuel Alito: Sitting on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, he is nicknamed “Scalito” because of his ultra-conservative, anti-choice views.[1] Alito has concluded that “time delay, higher cost, reduced availability, and forcing [a woman] to receive information she has not sought,” did not qualify as undue burdens on women’s reproductive rights, and he supported the spousal notification provision in Casey.[2]

Janice Rogers Brown: A “loose cannon” who writes with a “poison pen,”[3] Brown is currently a justice on the California Supreme Court. She is anti-choice, and widely known as the most conservative member of the court, dissenting in cases to oppose privacy and reproductive rights.[4] Brown twice failed to receive a “qualified” rating from a state bar commission due to her lack of impartiality and clear bias.[5]

Emilio Garza: Judge Garza of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is also anti-choice, often concurring in cases to state that Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional.[6] He wrote that “Roe and its progeny, including Bellotti II, have always stood on precarious constitutional footing… after Casey, these cases may not even be constitutional law.”[7]

Edith Jones: A judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose opinions “bespeak a withering contempt for the rights of the riffraff,”[8] Jones has consistently voted against reproductive rights. She wrote an extremely anti-choice concurring opinion in the case by the original Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, which attempted to reopen that landmark case.[9]

Michael Luttig: As a judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, he has written two very anti-choice decisions, one of which upheld a Virginia abortion ban nearly identical to the one the Supreme Court subsequently struck down in Stenberg v. Carhart.[10] He also authored the original decision striking down part of the Violence Against Women Act.[11]

Michael McConnell: He is currently a judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, to which he was appointed by George W. Bush. Before his appointment McConnell denounced Roe v. Wade and endorsed a constitutional amendment reversing the doctrines of Roe and Casey and banning abortion nationwide.[12]

John Roberts: Robers was appointed by President Bush to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. As Deputy Solicitor General in George H.W. Bush's administration, Roberts asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.[13]

J. Harvey Wilkinson: Currently a judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Wilkinson is a staunch conservative on the most conservative court in the nation. Wilkinson voted anti-choice in a divided decision upholding the Virginia parental notification law.[14]

(Thanks kcvl).