Bush Eyes Clarance Thomas for Supreme Court Chief Justice [Giving Liberals Nightmares Alert!]

Washington Whispers-U.S. News and World Report | Monday December 16, 2002 | Paul Bedard

[ewing]

White House aides are floating two names to replace aging Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.

Top Bushies say the conservative Scalia has the edge but not to count Thomas out-even though Dems still try and tag him as Anita Hill's sexual harasser.

Bush, however, has been told that Justice Thomas isn't keen on going through the meat grinder again.

[ThePythonicCow]

I enjoyed reading that - thanks.

[section9]

Is Stevens a RAT appointee?

Stevens is a Ford appointee.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[End The Hypocrisy]

>>>This and the Al Gore self immolation is just a good news day.<<<


What did Sore I mean Gore do? Please, do tell... Is there a thread? He had a book-signing in the D.C. area today.

[don-o]

What did Sore I mean Gore do? There are a couple of threads running on Albert's wounded psyche.

Click on "Latest Posts"

[CyberAnt]

"no requirement to be a lawyer"

Interesting! However, how many people who have been appointed to the SC have NOT been lawyers, let alone judges from a lessor court?

I'd be curious to know the answer to that!

[Tijeras_Slim]

they are probably rioting at DU already

If not they're certainly revolting. :)

[WaterDragon]

Clarence Thomas for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court!

He is perfect for the job. And appointing him would right a terrible wrong done him by the liberals.

[Utopia]

According to White House aides O'Connor, Rehnquist, and Stevens are leaving.

I thought Ruth Ginsberg wants out - I read she has cancer and wants peace and quiet at home. O'Connor simply wants to retire and Rehnquist, a widower, wants to spend time with his grand kids. I hadn't read about Stevens.

[CyberAnt]

"Sec-Gen of the UN perhaps"

This gets my vote. And ... I said so after Hillary chose NY to run for senator. When x42 also chose NY, and formally opened an office there, I was even more convinced the UN was his ultimate goal. What better place for him (and HER to try to dismantle U.S. soverignty??

[Nonfaction]

Clinton was never disbarred from the Supreme Court. After his law license was suspended in Arkansas (for 5 years), the Supreme Court suspended him and gave him 40 days to show why he should not be disbarred. He chose to resign from the Supreme Court bar instead, and they accepted his resignation.

In theory at least, if he regains his law license in some state, he could reapply to the Supreme Court.

[alnick]

I don't know how they could put Thomas through the meat grinder again. I mean, Bill Clinton has admitted to doing worse than Thomas has been accused of.

Oh, wait a minute. I'm talking about democrats. Never mind.

[alnick]

Wonderful story. Thanks for sharing. I have such respect for Justice Thomas.

[CyberAnt]

Thanks for the good info!!

[Holden Magroin]

I don't see how Thomas could be Chief Justice, when the guy never says anything during oral arguments. Scalia has been on the bench since '85. He and he alone has the intellectual firepower and experience to be the Chief Justice.

[plain talk]

Souter was a baby-killer before he got to the Supreme Court, and he has been a baby-killer ever since

If you have evidence Souter personally killed a baby let's have it. Otherwise STFU. Although I'm against abortion, I deplore smear tactics based on limited facts.

[agincourt1415]

You gotta love the Idea of either, but the First Black Chief Justice, that would be huge.

[agincourt1415]

FEDEX (Supremes Nominee) his 8 x 10 Glossy to the White House LOL.

[Reagan Man]

Antonin Scalia would make a great Chief Justice and so would Clarence Thomas. Both men would be a fine choice. PresBush couldn't go wrong.

If the GOP controls the Senate, there's absolutely no way, Slick could ever make it onto the USSC. NEVER!

[cloud8]

He chose to resign from the Supreme Court bar instead, and they accepted his resignation.
In theory at least, if he regains his law license in some state, he could reapply to the Supreme Court.

Well, he could I suppose. A previous post pointed out "The Judges...shall hold their Offices during good Behavior." (U.S. Const. Art. III, Section 1) I think that means "good behavior while in elective office or on the bench," and that such good (or not good) behavior carries with one for life. After 8 years of clinton's lying, his impeachment, and the last minute pardons, there's no way the Senate or the People could be fooled by his "definition of what is is" kind of defense that walked the fine line of legal technico-babble. clinton, that perversion and disgrace to our country, will always puke out his opinions legal, political and otherwise, but he will never practise law again, and indeed from now on if ever he should appear in court, it will be not as the judge but as the defendant.

[cloud8]

[Sec-Gen of the UN] gets my vote. And ... I said so after Hillary chose NY to run for senator. When x42 also chose NY, and formally opened an office there, I was even more convinced the UN was his ultimate goal. What better place for him (and HER to try to dismantle U.S. soverignty??

Yeah, and I left out the Nobel Prize. But you're right, of course...one world government was always the clintons' ultimate goal. He sold us out to the red Chinese and the Moslems. And even though the Eurotrash thought he was a diplomatic imbicile during his misadministration, now he goes over there and they treat him like a god--did you see that fawning display in Germany a month ago?

I wonder...what chain of circumstances could lead to his installation as Secretary General of the U. N.? It would need Hilary and a whole lot more to pull it off, but as time goes on and President Bush continues a successuful presidency, clinton is becoming too irrelevant to stage a comeback. Like who does he think he is...Nixon?