Janice Rogers Brown isn't a woman?
reread my post. Rogers nominated to court, Thomas to Chief justice.
Rogers Brown has served for what, 2 months on the DC court? its too soon. we can keep Rogers in the bullpen to replace Ginsburg or Stevens.
President Bush can keep the pressure on the Dems to confirm Roberts by saying that the two decisions should not interfere with one another. So, Roberts should be confirmed before Bush nominates Scalia.
Once Scalia is confirmed, that will create another vacancy on the Court (since the Chief Justice and Associate Justices are nominated and confirmed separately. THAT is the nomination where the fur will fly. My personal preference would be Judge Janice Brown, but we shall see.
Congressman Billybob
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Sorry, but I partially disagree with you
Michael Luttig or Edith Clement for SCOTUS...right now...Let J.R. Brown "serve and season" in her newly sworn position. She is a fine jurist and her day will come - perhaps only 2 years into the next Republican {G_d willing} administration - say, in 2009 or 2010. How great would that be...?
I favor Scalia as the next Chief {nothing against Thomas whatsoever, only that Scalia has richly earned it, and Thomas, at 12 years Scalia's junior, will have his opportunity}.
Picture this in the year 2010 -
Scalia has been Chief Justice for 5 years, Michael Luttig was named {by George W} to replace him as an associate, as he himself replaced Rehnquist in the position of Chief.
Bush had named Edith Clement to replace Justice Stevens who passed on in late May of 2007, at age 87, and Clement was swiftly confirmed by a solid majority, owing to democrat seats lost in midterm elections in 2006......
President Cheney and VP Allen, after brief consultation with House and Senate Majority leaders announce the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to replace Bader-Ginsburg
{retiring due to health reasons at age 77}.
With the expected confirmation of J.R. Brown, the court will maintain two women in its makeup, and a solidly Constitutionalist foundation in Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Luttig, Clement, and Brown herself. Breyer and Souter are both showing their age and one or the other is expected to announce their retirement before the end of Cheney/Allen's term in 2012. Only Kennedy remains stolidly entrenched in fair health and of the same age as Chief Justice Scalia {both born in 1936}
Together, these three anachronistic liberals provide little more than dissenting opinion amusement, (and op-ed "remember when/glory days" fodder for the SlimeStreamMedia,) voting reliably together in a block everytime, all the time regardless of the issue simply for the sake of being opposition to the Constitutionalist/constructionist 2/3 majority.
Issues such as Roe v Wade, and Kelo v London have been revisited, with Kelo being vacated outright and given a blistering critique by Chief Justice Scalia and associate Roberts who personally co-authored the majority opinion.
Roe was given lesser weight, and simply returned to the states with the cautionary that it not proceed to circuit or appellate levels except "under the most extenuating of circumstances..."
Texas' sodomy law(s) were restored in a challenge which saw the majority opinion authored by Clement and Thomas, critical of the "international law" cited in the original decision by Bader-Ginsburg, deliver a stinging rebuke which included the phrase "...an American Constitution, and an American moral framework of law for the American people, to whom we are responsible..."
It's so crazy, it just might work!
AmericanArchConservative
"...And justice for all!"