Posted on 10/29/2005 9:54:35 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Comment: Drudge has posted the latest article by Bob Novak that gives strong hints that Judge Williams is the front runner (see 3rd paragraph):
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WASHINGTON -- Managers of the failed Harriet Miers nomination for the Supreme Court set the actual day of her demise as Oct. 18, when conservative Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sam Brownback of Kansas called for the release of her work product as White House counsel to justify her confirmation.
Miers's strategists at that point felt the game was over because of inability to fight congressional demands for documents that the White House would not release. This was compounded when her visits to Republican senators went so badly that further sessions had to be suspended.
A footnote: Support among senators for Bush's nomination in place of Miers is concentrated on two conservative women: Federal Circuit Judge Karen Williams of Orangeburg, S.C., and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.
Judge Karen Williams
Justice Maura Corrigan
Excerpt:
Appellate Judge Edith Clement (5th Circuit, New Orleans) was the runner-up to Roberts in the first selection process, but the word in legal circles is that she did not do well in her interview with the president and now is out of the picture. Appellate Judge Edith Jones (5th Circuit, Houston) has been mentioned for the Supreme Court for a decade and at 56 is near the outer age limit. New names are Appellate Judge Karen Williams (4th Circuit, Orangeburg, S.C.), one of the most conservative federal judges, and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.
Again, the two names mentioned in order are Judge Karen Williams and then Justice Maura Corrigan.
Novak has excellent sources. I believe Judge Williams has the nomination should she accept it. President Bush in at Camp David this weekend working the phones.
It will be one helluva fight if either of these qualified and conservative women are chosen. The Liberals and the MSM will go ballistic.
So who leaked to Novak this time?
Has Bob detailed either woman's CIA ties yet?
Yeah, Williams. She's (semi) hot!!
Nobody guessed right in either of the last two nominations. If a name is being leaked, it's deliberate misdirection, just like the leaks we heard about the last two.
HA! Let's appoint a Special Prosecutor!
Judge Williams is foxy!
I sure hope Novak's sources have all dried up, not to mention the sources in the WH for any of the lefty reporters, after yesterday. Surely, they will learn by now it doesn't pay to talk to any of them.
I vote for Wilkinson 111 as the presidents choice.
I wasn't going to say so....but yup.
"Appellate Judge Edith Jones (5th Circuit, Houston) has been mentioned for the Supreme Court for a decade and at 56 is near the outer age limit."
She would still be 4 years younger than Meiers.
(P.S. How do you make quotes from another post appear in italics?)
We need this fight in the worst way.
OT:
I don't know how many of you read Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail (if you don't and are interested in what is happening in Iraq you really should his blog is at:
http://billroggio.com/
Anyway, he is planning on going to Iraq and blogging from there and needs some assistance. See:
http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/10/a_journey_to_an.php
We need more bloggers like Bill out there since the MSM is of little help.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Notice this line from Novak back in September:
New names are Appellate Judge Karen Williams (4th Circuit, Orangeburg, S.C.), one of the most conservative federal judges, and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.
Williams has reputation for "fire brand" Conservatism among her enemies--whatever "fire brand" means, but it can't be good news to Liberals.
We need a JILF on the court.
Italics tags.
< i > to open < / i > to close. No spaces though.
Novak is saying that those two women are front runners with some unnamed senators, not with Bush. You might want to consider asking the mods to change your headline. Just a suggestion.
Nah. I think it will be enough to see how she does in the swim suit competition.
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