LIVE THREAD: SCOTUS Nominee Watch (UPDATE: announcement at 9pm tonight)

Free Republic ^ | July 19, 2005

[Howlin]

TICK TOCK...............

Thread Two

[JLS]

But the rumors are awfully strong for Clement.
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Bush likes to misdirect, so I think we may still get the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in many years. And I think it may still be Garza.

[retrokitten]

Wow. She looks like a 50's TV mom.

[marmar]

What makes you assume I had to catch on???

[TeleStraightShooter]

That raised my eyebrows.

Perhaps she was making a political statement, as she was one of the old school girls @ the CIA that were politically active in trying to discredit Dubya.

[beyond the sea]

F. Lee Levin

;-)

Might as well drive 'em nuts!

[gopwinsin04]

[rwfromkansas]

True.

I posted before mainstream was just politics language. But, it is nice to hear him say he won't pick somebody who would legislate from the bench.

[oceanview]

not very encouraging.

I wonder now what the strategy is going to be with Rehnquist. Will the left simply let Clement sail through, and save their ammo to use against Luttig replacing Rehnquist? Or has the white house tipped its hand to not wanting a fight on any SCOTUS appointments, meaning we get another "squishy" nominee to replace Rehnquist?

I wonder if Rehnquist sees what is going on, and that's why he is going to try and hang on as long as he can, to deny Bush 43 from replacing him with this formula? Maybe he's decided to take a chance on the 2008 election.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good summation of our concerns.

I maintain that if a Senate "Maverick" is happy, then we've been screwed.

[alnick]

Lindsay Graham was on Fox today and said Bush has gotten the green light from some very liberal members of congress. Because of this, I'm not feeling the 'warm and fuzzies' about who he'll nominate. I certainly hope I'm wrong.

Normally I'd worry about the democrats cooperating, but they're really between a rock and a hard place here. If they filibuster, they WILL face the constitutional option. So if it's true that they'll be somewhat less antagonistic, it could be because they really have no choice.

I will not allow the words or opinions of a bunch of leftists sway my opinion on the matter. I will base it on the nominee's bio. :-)

[ken5050]

Rose..I thought that way also during the campaign..but now I understand Scott's fucntion...McCurry was the prototype of the combative press secretary...Scott is a "pushyme-pullyou"..nothing sticks to him, gets under his skin..he deforms..it's more frustrating to the press, I'd suspect..

[defconw]

Rush said she registered to vote for GORE! Interesting. That must mean she never voted before 2000?

[prairiebreeze]

ear candy

I agree.

[Semper Paratus]

Rush called Helen Thomas the sitting Buddha!

Sitting is missing a letter.

[Iwo Jima]

Neither Edith is among my first five choices. But Edith I is of proven constitutional philosophy and is VERY strong-willed. She is however a poor public speaker and simply lousy at Q & A even before friendly audiences like the Federalist Society.

Edith I also has views on the criminal justice system which are too strong for even the conservative 5th Circuit and are just unacceptable in my view. The Burdine opinion in which she joined was simply awful, so much so that the 5th Circuit sitting en banc reversed it, a very rare occurrence. This case will give the Dems very effective tools to oppose her.

Having thought about it, I have concluded that Edith I would do less harm with those views on the Supreme Court where she would have to get 4 other votes and Scalia and Thomas would ask her if she were crazy, than on the 5th Circuit where she only needs to get one other justice, like the crazy Rhesa Barksdale, to go along with her.

So I am OK with Edith I. I just fear that her Burdine opinion will doom her nomination. The first time I read Burdine, my very first thought was "Edith, Edith, Edith, you have blown your chance to be on the Supreme Court now." I would not be displeased to be proven wrong.

[twigs]

Could it be Linsey Graham himself? He's been putting himself forward for it. And I think tapping a current senator would make it a LOT harder for the senate to put it a fuss.

[steveegg]

The plan was supposed to be top double-secret (oops; then again, the left isn't that bright :-)

[processing please hold]

I think we're about to be thrown under the bus....

That's what I'm afraid of too. I hope we're both wrong.

[Congressman Billybob]

You have just made an observation that is both obvious and brilliant. I used to enjoy pressers run by Ari the same way I would watch a sword fight starring Errol Flynn. Whereas, with poor Scott, I turn the things off, usually. You have what Robert Frost called, "a ken eye for the obvious."

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The Fry Cook Rule for the Supreme Court"

[ConservativeDude]

My understanding from insiders is that the finalists were all brought to the White House. Judge Jones was one of them. I guess they had set a deadline, but didn't know who it was going to be. Also...who knows, maybe they wanted to have more than oneperson go in so as not to give anything away (not that anyone would have recognized Souter).

So you have this scenario where at least two C of A judges are sitting in the White House to see if they are to be the chosen one. One goes to the Rose Garden. The other goes to the Metro Stop and goes on with life. Apparently the latter was Judge Jones.

Makes me want to cry.