Posted on 07/19/2005 3:03:17 PM PDT by Checkers
Source: Clement Not Bush's Choice for High Court Source Tells ABC News Much-Discussed Potential Candidate Isn't the White House's Choice for Supreme Court Jul. 19, 2005 - Judge Edith Clement -- perceived by many observers as a potential frontrunner for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- is not President Bush's choice for the high court.
An informed source told ABC News they had spoken with Clement and said she received a phone call from the White House this afternoon. According to the source, Clement was thanked for meeting with the president and sharing her views on the Supreme Court, but that the administration has decided to go in a "different direction."
The White House said Bush will announce his selection tonight at 9 p.m. ET.
A U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the 5th Circuit, Clement was nominated to her current position by Bush and was confirmed by the Senate in November 2001.
Speculation has swirled about the nomination since O'Connor announced her retirement on July 1.
O'Connor, 75, was the first female justice to serve on the High Court, and many speculated that Bush would choose a woman to replace her.
Clement was considered a leading candidate to replace her, along with her colleague on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, Edith Hollan Jones.
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A little slow on the draw, aren't ya?
Hey, I posted the article.
Commish Isn't either. I love how the administration is putting names out there and then pulling them back after the media gets all frenzied up. hehehe
Zell Miller, if for no other reason than he wants the state legislators to elect members of the U.S. Senate.
Yeah... after it had already been posted twice.
"Source: Clement Not Bush's Choice for High Court Source Tells ABC News".....
OK Dubya.....pick a STRONG CONSERVATIVE.... ex-Judge Roy Moore gets my vote. That would be a fireworks explosion with the leftists however. Screw em... they foisted Ginsburg on us and she is RADICAL left as we know. So Nuke the libs on this one.
Hugh Hewitt says Luttig is walking around a hot DC in "dress-up" clothes.
Did either of them post the article?
Doesn't everyone in DC walk around like that, all the time?
No way this pick's going to be a dude.
It won't be Zell or Roy Moore.
That would be sweet if it's Luttig.
Congressman Billybob
The other Edith?
I think "W" is having a grand old time teasing the MSM. :)
That don't mean nothing -- there's a lotta drag queens in DC!
Luttig had his family in court with him today also.
Good. The MSM have been yanking him around unfairly for too long. Twist em in knots like their devious minds deserve.
Nuke 'em.
(The Dems, not Mecca...:>})
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