Posted on 05/09/2009 2:57:14 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sovo.com ...
Mark Steyn was filling in for Rush on Thursday and coined a new phrase: "Moderate Evil-Doer" (remember shortly after 9/11 President Bush started to referring to these people simply as evil-doer's?). Well, Steyn suggested Colin Powell thinks of The Taliban and Al-Qaeda as "Moderate Evil-Doers." It was hysterical to listen to.
If she gets on board, how long before she accuses Clarence Thomas of putting pubes in her Colt 45?
/sarc
It wouldn't surprise me if he were a tax cheat like Geitner and others. She also may be a thief like Rezko, a hate America racist like Rev Wright and Lewis Farrakhan, a hate America terrorist like Ayers or a leftist nut case like Napolitano and others. My point is everyone Obama likes has something wrong with them.
Wow, 3 check off boxes at once
Black, Female, Abortion
I’m from GA I don’t know much about her other than she opposses the amendments apposing same sex marriage. I would definately prefer her over the MIchigan governor who I read was a possibility. In GA supreme court judges are elected by the public so I gather she has some moderate points of view. I would gather that she would probably sail through confirmation. I believe I read somewhere that Zell Miller appointed her (I don’t know if a judge stepped down or not then).
Finally, the first lefty I would consider nice looking.
That's nice but if she were I dunno say a conservative governor of an upper northwestern state or something and she did that she would be branded a hypocrite.
I think I approve of her.
Still like to hear from GA.
But let’s be careful. If 0 gets wind of FR approval, she may not get the job.
Sears, 53, describes herself as a judicial moderate. But court watchers say she has long been one of the state Supreme Court’s most liberal members
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/05/01/leah_ward_sears_supreme_court.html
I’ve read a few of her decisions.
She’s a liberal, but not a flaming liberal. The way she writes her decisions strikes me as being more pragmatic then idological. I haven’t found any quotes of her’s on the US Constitution but when her court overturned a ballot law in Georgia, she specifically referenced the part of the Georgian constitution that law violated and made a point that it was the Courts responsibility to uphold the Constitution.
I’m sure more info on her will be coming out in the next few days but what I do know is that she’s not as bad as Souter.
another opinion
Sears is a left-leaning Justice by the standards of Georgia Courts, but on a national scale is likely to be considered a judicial moderate.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1309418/judges_to_watch_potential_obama_supreme.html?cat=17
Sounds palatable. Now if 0 doesn’t threa, er, I mean ask her to “change” her ways to reflect his agenda.
The theme of the poem is basically that all American blacks are good, no matter what, and all whites are bad, no matter what. And it ends with wanting her (the poet's) people to rise up.
It is not a measured and intelligent look at race in America. It's an emotional glorification of victimhood.
It's not what I look for in a Supreme Court Justice. How many events were graced with her reading this?
Leah Sears? Oh please, not her. Not after that Genarlow Wilson fiasco.
” ...For Children’s Sake: Get Married, Stay Married,” conference, which she helped to organize ..”
As good as you’ll get with a ‘progressive’ so will probably not make the finals.
I haven’t read the thread yet, but I’ll say that unless she’s a total basket case, this could be a good thing because she is old.
“Pray for continued health and well-being for the Justices Alito, Roberts, Thomas, and Scalia . If we lose ANY of them, it’s the end of the Constitution for 30 or 40 years! They may well have an opportunity to place replacements for Ginsburg and Stevens (no loss in those two, for sure).”
Actually, one really has to include Kennedy (Anthony that is) in that bunch because he’s usually the swing vote which goes conservative.
“How dare you axe?”
It’s OK to axe, but it’s not OK to go nucular!;)
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