Harriet Miers a replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor? (DRUDGE HEADLINE)

The Drudge Report ^ | 9-28-2005 | Drudge

[KStorm]

Just a headline, presently.

[xsmommy]

LMAO!

[Romish_Papist]

I have to disagree. If the nomination is in the offing anyway, then why deflect it with a false candidate? It makes more sense to just announce the real candidate. Now, if Miers IS the real candidate... let's just say this looks more like Bush rewarding friends as opposed to taking the SCOTUS nomination seriously. He promised us Conservatives, with this lady, we ain't getting that.

[alessandrofiaschi]

Priscilla Owen is my second best (after JRB) and my first bet. Bush will appoint her.

[Soul Seeker]

Sekulow speculatd her name on Hannity's show.

That's probably what this is about. Nothing more.

[Preachin']

I promise: If she is the nominee and turns out to be pro-choice I am forever done with the GOP.

[Romish_Papist]

Agreed again.

[Romish_Papist]

You and I both.

[nfldgirl]

Go to the link in post #48 above...

[lizma]

Scroll down here.

[NeoCaveman]

I'd spread a rumor that Bii Clinton was high on the list just mess with everyones mind. HeHeHe

Forget Bill, float Hillary!s name....

[CatoRenasci]

I am not suggesting that it is impossible for a brilliant (conservative) legal mind to emerge from a third tier (or lower) law school; rather that it is far less likely than for a first rate (conservative) legal mind to emerge from a top tier law school. While there will be a few -- a very few -- really bright students at the lower tier law schools, for many of the reasons you suggest, it's a whole lot more likely that the first rate legal minds to come out of the top tier law schools, clerk for well-regarded (conservative) appellate judges or supreme court justices, and then go on to careers of demonstrated achievement at the very highest levels of sophisticated trial or commerical practice.

In the case of a graduate of a third, or even second, tier law school, I would want to see an even more impressive set of achievements demonstrating first rate ability before I even considered nominating him or her for a top tier court.

Your post suggests that you think the top tier law schools students are no brighter, just wealthier, better connected, more focused and with family values more conducive to aiming high, than the students at third tier and below law schools. That may have been true 40 years ago. It wasn't true when I went to law school 25 years ago and it's not true today. All you have to do is look at the LSAT scores and undergraduate records of the entering classes at the various schools.

In fact, students at lower tier schools may well be more focused and motivated to do well than the kids at the top tier, but they're looking for different things, typically. They want to learn specifically what they will need to practice -- a healthy attitude in many ways -- and are often older and come to legal education after several years working. The education itself at the top tier schools is pitched differently, it's more theoretical and less practical. It is geared more to training legal scholars, those who will end up teaching or writing about the law. In fact, the top tier schools are often criticized on that ground by practioners. However, when I'm looking for a first rate conservative legal mind for a judgeship, I would rather they have that training than the more practical, bar passage-oriented training at the lower tiers of law schools.

[GaltMeister]

how about Judge Judy!

Time for Wopner!

[dollar_dog]

perhaps you oughta do some research on David Souter, loyalties, and the job description.

Yes, let's do some research. History shows the only SC justices who've remained fiercely conservative on the bench are those that have served in the White House. That's a fact.

Now, has JRB ever served an administration? No. Has Miers? Yes. Has Souter? no Has Scalia? you bet.

Maybe you are not conservative...

now you're just playing dirty. I'll respond: maybe you're a retard, fine, but perhaps you oughta do some research and see how much the President trusts and respect Mrs Miers before you write her off for making a measley donation back in 1988.

[B Knotts]

I promise: If she is the nominee and turns out to be pro-choice I am forever done with the GOP.

BUMP to that. This is the core issue I voted GOP on.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Anyone know if she is Pro-Life?"

STOP IT!!! She is pro-choice. She just chooses life.

Unlike the lefties who are pro-choice and choose death.

Please start getting this correct. Choice means you can shoose either way. Therefore those of us who believe in the sanctity of life also deserve a choice.

[rog4vmi]

I'd pick Priscilla Owen over Janice Rogers Brown. The problem with Brown is that she has only been given a "qualified" rating by the ABA...as opposed to "well qualified."

In terms of her ability as a legal practitioner....she is more suspect than the other folks on the list. That being said...I do support her viewpoints across the board.

[commonguymd]

You made me laugh with your response. I did not vote for Bush to have him put up a stealth candidate and not fight the fight. I think Roberts was a bad choice, and this choice would be a further disaster - and believe me, it will destroy his presidency. We know nothing about their politics - and this choice seems to be a political opportunist - paying dues to only Texas Republicans who are in power and the Bush family who are the major Texas power brokers - besides her democrat contributions. Pretty clear to me that she is an opportunist.

Sorry I don't operate on "faith" and "hope" that a candidate will be a conservative bench sitter because Bush nominates them. That is just folly. He told me he was a fiscal conservative. I learned my lesson.

Oh, and your argument about working in administration is about as weak as it gets. sorry. If Bush nominates Colin Powell would you feel the same? If Bush nominates George Tennant would you feel the same? Of course I am speaking hypothetically, but reality says they served in his administration too. Your straw-man argument holds no water.

[deficit hawk]

bush's pick for sandy o'connor's replacement:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cas/HTML/u_s__attorney.html

She has the ivy-league credentials of Rehnquist and O'Connor (all three stanford law grads). She has identity politics going for her in spades: Asian, woman. Too much is said about bush trying to court the hispanics and that the pick will reflect that. In fact, the GOP should start getting asians on board more as they are disproportionately represented in the professions. Every year there are tens of young asians clerking for judges (way more than latinos).For instance: this guy.

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235

Then look at her resume: went after cosa nostra (tough on crime), went after metabolife nutritionals (a move favored by big pharma--one of the GOP's biggest donors, by the way), and recently: freeing a mexican who smuggled immigrants into u.s. Yeah, neither her nor bush will really do anything about the border in our lifetime.

Besides, this business of only looking at candidates from the pool of federal appeals judges is overemphasized. There would be a little more diverse experience on SCOTUS if a prosecutor such as Lam were nominated. They already have an advocate in Ginsburg. Kind of balances things out, doesn't it? Without having to lurch to the right and waste time on a confirmation fight. If bush wanted to take the court strongly to the right he would've elevated Scalia, but he DIDN'T.

You'll remember that bush was in San Diego the day after Katrina hit. He was there to interview this lady.

the cw is wrong.

[Republican Wildcat]

I'm getting tired of Texans being put, seeming, in every federal post.

Chief Justice John Roberts - New York

Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice - California

USDA Sec. Mike Johanns - Iowa

Interior Secretary Gale Norton - Colorado

Commerce Secretary Carlos Guiterrez - Florida? (not clear from bio - fled from Cuba originally)

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - Illinois

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao - Kentucky

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings - Texas (uh oh, there's one)

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson - Texas (eek...another one)

HS Secretary Michael Chertoff - New York

AG Alberto Gonzalez - Texas (yikes)

VA Secretary Jim Nicholson - Colorado

HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt - Utah

Treas. Secretary John Snow - Virginia

Trans. Secretary Norm Mineta - California

Looks like you are getting tired and upset over something that isn't actually happening. You've bought into the Dem kook propaganda about runaway Texans taking over the world. Resist - resist!