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The Second-String Supreme Court ShortlistThe judges the White House just started talking about.By Emily BazelonPosted Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, at 2:03 PM PT The Bush administration has recently been professing its interest in nominating a woman or a minority to the Supreme Court—and to that end, floating a new list of judges as candidates. Two of the top names, Priscilla Owens and Janice Rogers Brown, are familiar from the Senate battle over the filibuster that eventually ended with their appointments to the federal courts of appeal. But along with them (and with these candidates) there are some judges on the shortlist...