second hand, but a Texas Fed Soc member says that they heard from someone who works at the court in New Orl.
Hopefully somewhere someone got something wrong...or they do to her what they did to Judge Jones back in the Souter days....bring her up and then trot out someone else.
Also possible that W was thinking long and smart when he was first elected. He figured he'd get to make at least one SC nominee..so he planted Clement early in the appeals system..she was one of his first nominees, remember..and she's been , shall we say "stealthy" in her written track record..