Posted on 05/26/2012 2:08:35 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Paul Clement, who served as U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush and is now a lawyer in private practice, is the favorite of many conservatives. Clement argued last month for the Supreme Court to strike down Obama's 2010 healthcare law, and he is defending laws that ban same-sex marriage and that target illegal immigrants.
Clement, 45, would be "at the top of any short list right now," said Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice, a group that advocates for conservative nominees.
Asked about Clement, Mary Ann Glendon, a co-chairwoman of Romney's Justice Advisory Committee, voiced "unbounded admiration" for him.
"He's the type of person who fits the mold that the governor has pledged to look for," Glendon said, adding that "it's much too soon to speculate about names."
Mentioned as often as Clement is Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Kavanaugh, 47, sits on a court that produced four sitting justices. He has deep roots in Washington, D.C., having worked in the Bush White House and assisted in the 1990s investigation that nearly led to President Bill Clinton's ouster.
Kavanaugh is known for elaborate opinions such as a 65-page dissent he wrote in November exploring how an 1867 tax law barred courts from considering Obama's healthcare law until 2015.
A third possibility, Judge Diane Sykes, is often mentioned as a likely Romney nominee if the next person to leave the Supreme Court is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court's senior woman justice. Ginsburg has survived cancer twice.
Sykes, 54, was appointed to a Chicago-based U.S. appeals court in 2004, overcoming Democratic criticism of her record in abortion-related cases.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
One way to bypass the Mitt gag factor is to ask yourself-—who would you rather have as FL-—a stay at home mom who raised five kids-—or snarling vacation-obsessed Michelle?
“He will try to appoint Mormons.”
There aren’t that many Mormon Federal judges. In any event, if he nominates a Mormon who believes in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, than I have no problem with it.
RE: Mentioned as often as Clement is Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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He was A protege of Judge Kenneth Starr.
Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr report, which urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Kavanaugh also led the investigation into the suicide of Clinton aide Vincent Foster. After the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, in which Kavanaugh worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the Florida recount, Kavanaugh joined Bush’s staff, where he led the Administration’s effort to identify and confirm conservative judicial nominees.
Kavanaugh himself was nominated to the D.C. Appeals Court by Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious and stalled for three years over charges of partisanship.
Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican Senators.
You need to stop pinging me to threads about Romney. I’m off the plantation and won’t be back.
The gag factor also goes away when one thinks of our soldiers having to salute Obama for just one more day.
After all, the job we are talking about is Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces.
Bad OR good, depending on the exact intrigue.
A few months ago there was a lot of talk about how Mitt Romney, in order to keep his Mormon godhood, has to keep on taking directions from Mormon prophets.
We all agreed it was horrible, and then went on to different topics without developing the full implications.
Anyhow if we get Harry Reid style Mormons, maybe that’s something that Mitt’s personal prophet would want — that would be bad!
RE: A third possibility, Judge Diane Sykes, is often mentioned as a likely Romney nominee if the next person to leave the Supreme Court is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s senior woman justice
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The following things I know of Diane Sykes...
Sykes was married to conservative radio talk show host Charlie Sykes of WTMJ in Milwaukee, but they are now divorced. Sykes has two children from that marriage.
Sykes is a member of the Federalist Society.
Like the list but not a real warm Romney fan. He needs to get out of the middle of the road.
If Romney could get elected, remains to be seen, how do we get any justices to retire ... maybe throwing banana peels around the court would help.
OK, what about Michigan pings?
Seriously? Romney's wife can't change the fact that women in MA are getting cheap abortions thanks to him, or that he recently said people of the "same gender" who "love" each other should be able to adopt children.
Yes. Romney rolled over and went along with the process, doing nothing to try and get any conservatives named as nominees.
Politics allows for give-and-take. I haven’t seen anything Romney did to promote his own candidates, assuming he had conservative nominees in mind. And that I find curious.
Do we really want a Republican President who will not “go to the matts” for his professed conservative beliefs?
LOL, thanks for the laugh. I forgot how stupid some of those things sounded. Next thing you know, warnings of how he'll ban coffee, require everyone to have multiple wives, and make us cut strategically placed holes in our underwear.
It’s called ‘brow beating’, a favorite hack methodology of Milt Rominy haters, used to try and squelch ANYthing positive about the Mormon high priest who appears to be the pubby nominee to run against little barry bastard commie and hisd thugocracy.
No, just celebrating in my wry way, the liberal capacity for double- and treble-counting, or undercounting, or not counting at all, depending on what the situation calls for. Flexible, aren't they?
[BLL] The Senate will never stand up to Obama like that. Too many of "our" guys are willing to compromise to avoid the bad PR that would ensue. Remember, we had a Republican Senate and a Republican president and we still got the "Gang of 14" compromise in 2005.
Perhaps you've forgotten the ramrod the Tea Party has been not-so-gently inserting in Senate Republicans' optorectal cavities. Bennett, Lugar, and pretty soon Kay Bailey Hutchison are all going to be replaced by RiNO-proof Tea Party candidates, and there are other examples as well.
The prospect of being primaried for rolling over for Barky will be the "stiffereen" the GOP senators require -- that, and a majority (hopefully, 67 strong, so we can move immediately to the task of removing the Pres_ent from his White Hut squats, and put a real President in office).
Depriving McConnell of the Senate Republican leadership would be another great step toward the Senate's asserting some responsibility for a change. But what is happening so far is, I think (IMHO), sufficient to produce the manful, principled resistance that has been nonexistent since 2009.
Alright, I’ll bite.
A Romney presidency gives us no such thing. This article is smoke up people’s arses.
Romney’s record is firmly on the side of judicial activism.
http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=2340
http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/6634402544/mitt-romney-is-a-liberal-part-2-romney-appointed
Come on man........ it’s Reuters! Seriously.
We need someone in the mold of Clarence Thomas. He’s the only Justice who really believes in liberty, American liberty.
Mitt would pick Senator Hatch, no matter what. A RINO not picking other RINOS for the SCOTUS? Good Luck.
I’ll happily fill his stead. Please add me to any of your election 2012 pings, FRiend.
-—————He will try to appoint Mormons.——————
That’s probably a good thing.
Well, wait. Will Romney nominate liberal mormons like himself or Pinky Reid? He probably would. So scratch that.
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