Posted on 10/01/2012 4:25:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Here is an unofficial list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court if Mitt Romney is elected president in November. This list was compiled from a number of sources, including those serving as informal advisers to the Romney campaign. The Republican nominee has not specified publicly on favorites for the court. Many names mentioned are relatively young judges named to the federal bench by President George W. Bush.
Paul Clement, former U.S. Solicitor General
Born 1966. Considered by many as one of the best lawyers of his generation. The Wisconsin native went to Harvard Law School where he was a classmate of President Barack Obama, and later clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia. He served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush and earned raves for his persuasive, conservational style at oral arguments. Now a private attorney, he has become the go-to guy among conservatives to lead appeals on a variety of hot-button issues: health care reform, same-sex marriage, immigration enforcement, and gun rights. He personally argued seven cases in the 2011 term, including the health care petitions. He has been strategically coy about his chances for the high court, saying he would be honored but remains focused on his law practice.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Born 1965. Began his job May 2006 in a court that has seen several of its former members make the jump to the Supreme Court. A former top official in the George W. Bush White House. His nomination to a federal appeals court for the D.C. circuit was held up for three years by Democrats. Senators Patrick Leahy and Richard Durbin later accused Kavanaugh of misleading the Judiciary Committee during his confirmation over whether he helped formulate policy on the detention and questioning of accused terrorists...
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Dont get excited but Romney has a record of appointing liberal judges not conservatives.
As opposed to 0bama who appoints whom?
This is the type of reaction CNN hopes it gets.
It was pretty nice today down here in North Texas, how was the weather in Chicago?
If Bush appointed Roberts, one can only imagine...
I read through the entire list.
I would prefer that someone with extensive experience in a US Circuit Court of Appeals get the nomination. There will be a record of his/her decisions to evaluate.
Nominating anyone else is just political payback (I’m looking at you, Obama and Kagan).
Romney has a history of liberal judges, so who knows really.
Clement, Kavanaugh, Brown, and Lee are supposed to be staunch Conservatives and maybe Sykes while the others are new to me. Lee is newly elected to Senate and appears to be making strong Conservative waves. Surprised that CNN would be publishing this list because I would expect them to be pushing the selection of more leftist prospective nominees to SC. All in all, the names here are pretty darn good. But, we all remember what John Roberts has done.
Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed by President Reagan, I don’t recall her being a hard-core conservative.
Supreme Court possibilities if Obama is reelected
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2938821/posts
If Romney were like Reagan you would have a point, Romney is a liberal so you don’t.
Don’t even want to look, I know the type he will appoint, they infest the law schools.
Dont get excited but Romney has a record of appointing liberal judges not conservatives.
What was the procedure for Romney to appoint judges in MA? Was he free to pick anyone that he wanted to or was he bound to a list of some number supplied by a governmental commission? Makes lot of difference in what his choices may have been. Do you know the procedure that was in place?
President Reagan was once an FDR Democrat.
He’ll have to walk over to Pizza Uno and ask a supervisor.
Reagan was a conservative democrat, and became a conservative Republican - he was always a conservative.
Romney was a liberal democrat and became a liberal Republican - he was always a liberal, and still is.
Pay close attention to the word “unofficialâ€, the “who can we get past the Senate†Repub thinking, vs. the “we are going to ram our nominee down your throat†dems thinking are not in play when projecting your link. I am sure Nixon’s pre-election nominees looked like Jefferson and Madison clones, yet look what happened, lol.
It is best not to go back to WWII to attack Reagan in defense of the anti-Reagan Mitt Romney.
HTML + “” +spell check = lol
Pay close attention to the word “unofficial”, the “who can we get past the Senate” Repub thinking, vs. the “we are going to ram our nominee down your throat” dems thinking are not in play when projecting your link.
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