Shrub Poised to Pick Court Nominee Tomorrow
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...103000910.html

President Bush appears poised to announce a new Supreme Court nomination today, moving quickly after a weekend of consultations to put forward a replacement for the ill-fated choice of Harriet Miers in hopes of recapturing political momentum, according to Republicans close to the White House.

Judging by the names the White House floated by political allies in recent days, Bush seems ready to pick a candidate with a long track record of conservative jurisprudence -- one who would mollify the Republican base, whose opposition to Miers's nomination helped scuttle her chances. Several GOP strategists said the most likely choice seemed to be federal appeals judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., with judges J. Michael Luttig and Alice M. Batchelder also in the running.

Any of the three would draw support from many conservative activists, lawyers and columnists who vigorously attacked Miers as an underqualified presidential crony. At the same time, the three have years of court rulings that liberals could use against them. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday that he has already warned the White House that nominating Alito -- who is often compared to Justice Antonin Scalia -- would "create a lot of problems."

Republican lawmakers and strategists said a swift nomination with a consolidated party behind Bush would represent an important first step for the president in a strategy to pull out himself of a political ditch. With the withdrawal Thursday of Miers's nomination, the mounting death toll in Iraq and the indictment Friday of top vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Bush has hit an all-time low in public approval ratings and wants to start a new chapter in his troubled second term.

and the D's will block it and the R's will accuse them of not giving adequate consideration and abusing the nominal advice and consent clause, never mins that that is exactly what the R's did to Meirs - hypocrites.

Good luck to him....:lol:

We can only hope for Janice

Never gonna happen, but hold on to your silly dream if it helps you sleep well for one more night.

I hope tomorrow he announces her....that would be funny as hell!

Dream on, silly dreamer. :laugh: It will most likely be Batchelder.

as Amy Grant sings...

"Believe, miracles can happen just imagine..." :p

Sorry kid. Looks like it's going to be Alito.

I have to say, I know nothing about this guy, though I'm anxious to learn.

I hope that the Democrats take the high road and give this guy a thorough but fair examination, as opposed to just trying to tear him apart because he's a conservative nominee.

I mean, I'm not counting on it. But I hope.

so guess who he picks.........what an ASS. Words cant describe how much I hate him.

he's probably anti-choice which will cause a furor of itself....

Well yes. I believe he is a liberal, activist judge when it comes to those types of issues - as most "conservatives" tend to be.

I think he upheld a law at one point requiring women to tell their husbands if they are getting an abortion.

dont get me started.....Im so glad A) Im single B) I live in CA.

LOL - I love how the words liberal, activist judge fits only the opposition when bioth sides take advantage of the effects of that and the effects have been only positive regarding human rights when the D's use it. For example, the right to privacy is how the D's use it. The R's use it to put care free gun ownership in the Const. when none is there (and mind you I have guns) - override countless state court decisions in the Terri Schiavo case, and get W elected in 2000. So, who has the fairer and more human track record of using so called acitivist judges, which I submit is a BS buzz word anyway - or at least since like 200 years ago in Marbury v. Madison.

As opposed to how the R's gave Miers the same courtesy :rolleyes: In the end, the R's are far more hypocritical than the highly hypocritical D's as far as I am concerned.