Novak: The Next Justice? (Floats Harriet Miers and Samuel Alito)

Creator's Syndicate ^ | October 2, 2005 | Robert Novak

[RWR8189]

The two names passing through conservative legal circles last week to fill the remaining Supreme Court vacancy were White House Counsel Harriet Miers and Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Miers, a 60-year-old former Dallas City Council member, is a prominent Dallas lawyer without judicial experience. She is close to President Bush, but the pro-life movement questions her position on abortion. She would be the first non-judge named to the Supreme Court since William Rehnquist in 1972.

Nobody questions the conservatism of the 55-year-old Alito. He was named in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware) following service as Bush's U.S. attorney for New Jersey and in the Reagan Justice Department.

[RWR8189]

I think all this Miers talk is BS, but from what I have read about Alito, he seems very good.

[peyton randolph]

Nickname is ScAlito. Very good pick.

[skaterboy]

60? No way she gets it..55 so he might be young enough for a good 25 year run and remember this is Always wrong Novak so take with salt

[GeronL]

Alito sounds mobbish... just kidding...

[SAJ]

Well, if the media name enough names fast enough (i.e. before a nomination is actually made), presumably one of their number will get it right, and claim bragging rights for the rest of his or her life.

These sorry clots...

[GeronL]

They should just list every right-tilting judge and lawyer in the country and get it over with.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Bush should pick a handicapped black Jewish lesbian conservative.

[indianrightwinger]

There is ZERO chance Bush will pick a white male. I am not saying it is wrong, just that the political considerations will be made.

[RWR8189]

So I take it Alito is Italian and not Hispanic?

[Salvation]

And who are Novak's sources this time???</sarcasm off

[Salvation]

http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=26

Alito, Samuel A. Jr.

Born 1950 in Trenton, NJ

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on February 20, 1990, to a seat vacated by John Joseph Gibbons; Confirmed by the Senate on April 27, 1990, and received commission on April 30, 1990.

Education:
Princeton University, A.B., 1972

Yale Law School, J.D., 1975

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1976-1977
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of New Jersey, 1977-1981
Assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1981-1985
Deputy assistant U.S. attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1985-1987
U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, 1987-1990

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

[GeronL]

wow... do you know any??... has to be left-handed too.

[indianrightwinger]

Yes.

[BookaT]

Did he say Judge Ito?

[indianrightwinger]

Alito

[COEXERJ145]

This means it won't be Miers or Alito.

[decal]

"Bush should pick a handicapped black Jewish lesbian conservative."

Well if he calls, fine, but I gotta have Fridays off...

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Bush should pick a handicapped black Jewish lesbian conservative.

That would be Whoops Goldberg, Whoopi's estranged sister.

The pick would be a stroke of genius.

[syriacus]

Bush to announce nominee at 8 AM .

AP and others reporting Miers is the President's choice.

[cgk]

And who are Novak's sources this time??? /sarcasm off

Can I just say that Novak's source this time around must be the dastardly "Official A" again. He nailed it.