Leah Sears possible candidate for U.S. Supreme Court

Southern Voice ^ | May 08, 2009 | Matt Schafer

[Clintonfatigued]

Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears is on a short list of candidates to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, according to media reports. Souter reportedly will step down in June.

Sears, who will also step down in June, has served on the state’s highest court since 1992. The first woman and youngest justice in the court’s history, she was also its first African-American female chief justice. Sears has kept her plans for her retirement private, although she has hinted at wanting a larger public role.

Earlier this year Sears was announced as a finalist for Dean of the University Maryland School of Law. She later removed herself from contention, saying she wanted to seek other opportunities.

Sears has been mentioned as a possible choice for President Barack Obama since before he won the election in 2008. She has been reluctant to discuss her future. Georgia Supreme Court spokesperson Jane Hansen said this week Sears was not talking to the media.

“Chief Justice Sears really believes it would be inappropriate to talk about whatever may be going on, so she is not going to comment,” Hansen said.

Sears did speak with Southern Voice during the “For Children’s Sake: Get Married, Stay Married,” conference, which she helped to organize in November. She described herself as a “moderate-progressive type person” in a wide-ranging interview where she talked about her frustration with the media and hinted about her future.

[MeanWestTexan]

Found it; or at least where Sears claims “For my People” is her favorite poem.

Here:

http://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/disciplines.html

Gotta love a person whose favorite poem is about an army of blacks who kill all the white people and take over.

What a bigot.

[MeanWestTexan]

Says all I ever want to know about her:



"Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. . . Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control."

[TornadoAlley3]

I do not think Obama will pick a current sitting judge, he will pick a politico.