Karen J. Williams
Age: 54
Graduated from: University of South Carolina Law Center She used to be: A lawyer in private practice in Orangeburg, S.C.
She's now: a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (appointed 1992)
Her confirmation battle: Williams is a solid conservative without a smoking-gun abortion decision to her credit or debit. She came to the attention of the right when she wrote a decision in 1999 scrapping the Miranda warning for criminal suspects (the Supreme Court reversed her 7 to 2). Since then, she has urged the courts to show broad deference to the president's war powers and rejected the notion that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance means that the pledge shouldn't be recited in public school. Both stances are sure to please Bush's base. Not much here for anyone else.
looks fine.
and it will quell the people here who think "only Ivy League elites are eligible now". she got her education in south carolina.
she was appointed in 1992? by Clinton?
I agree with you... Karen Williams... she is smart, female, conservative, telegenic, and articulate. She is also on the "non-filibuster" list.
It will be very politcally difficult for moderate Dems (Landreiu, Nelson, Nelson, Carper, Lincoln, Pryor, et al) to oppose her.