Colonel_Reb
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Leaving nothing but Catholics and Jews on the court. Obama is said to want another woman, likely Solicitor General Elena Kagan, also a jew. Great timing for the Marxists to extend their reach farther into the future.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/09/politics/main6379273.shtml
(CBS/ AP) Earlier this week, White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that should Justice John Paul Stevens
retire, a nominee would be offered shortly thereafter.
"We'll be ready," Gibbs said.
Gibbs and the Obama administration must now back up their talk.
Stevens sent a letter announcing his retirement to President Barack
Obama Friday.
The immediate speculation as to who will replace Stevens centered on
two female candidates: Federal Appellate Judge Diane Wood and Solicitor
General Elena Kagan.
Federal Judge Merrick Garland, a former high-ranking Justice
Department official who is well respected and considered least likely to
engender significant Republican opposition, has also been tossed around
as a possible nominee.
According to CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill
Plante, the administration has also hinted at at least one other
candidate. All that doesn't really mean that these people are the short
list, but it's a pretty good bet.
Among other considerations:
- Does Obama want to name another woman, or a member of an ethnic or
racial minority?
- Would it matter to him, or anyone else, if the court were made up
entirely of Catholics and Jews? Stevens is the only Protestant on the
court now, and both Garland and Kagan are Jewish.
- If a president's Supreme Court choices help shape his legacy,
would he favor Kagan, the youngest of the three?
- Does Wood, raised and educated in Texas, have an edge because she
would replace Stevens, a Northwestern University law graduate, as the
only justice without an Ivy League pedigree?
If the president is casting a wider net, two Democratic governors -
Jennifer Granholm of Michigan and Deval Patrick of Massachusetts - also
could be considered.
Because so little time has passed since last year's selection and
confirmation of Sotomayor, both the White House and its political
opponents are going over well-worn ground in evaluating Kagan and Wood.
Obama interviewed them both before settling on Sotomayor.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/09/politics/main6379273.shtml
(CBS/ AP) Earlier this week, White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that should Justice John Paul Stevens
retire, a nominee would be offered shortly thereafter.
"We'll be ready," Gibbs said.
Gibbs and the Obama administration must now back up their talk.
Stevens sent a letter announcing his retirement to President Barack
Obama Friday.
The immediate speculation as to who will replace Stevens centered on
two female candidates: Federal Appellate Judge Diane Wood and Solicitor
General Elena Kagan.
Federal Judge Merrick Garland, a former high-ranking Justice
Department official who is well respected and considered least likely to
engender significant Republican opposition, has also been tossed around
as a possible nominee.
According to CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill
Plante, the administration has also hinted at at least one other
candidate. All that doesn't really mean that these people are the short
list, but it's a pretty good bet.
Among other considerations:
- Does Obama want to name another woman, or a member of an ethnic or
racial minority?
- Would it matter to him, or anyone else, if the court were made up
entirely of Catholics and Jews? Stevens is the only Protestant on the
court now, and both Garland and Kagan are Jewish.
- If a president's Supreme Court choices help shape his legacy,
would he favor Kagan, the youngest of the three?
- Does Wood, raised and educated in Texas, have an edge because she
would replace Stevens, a Northwestern University law graduate, as the
only justice without an Ivy League pedigree?
If the president is casting a wider net, two Democratic governors -
Jennifer Granholm of Michigan and Deval Patrick of Massachusetts - also
could be considered.
Because so little time has passed since last year's selection and
confirmation of Sotomayor, both the White House and its political
opponents are going over well-worn ground in evaluating Kagan and Wood.
Obama interviewed them both before settling on Sotomayor.
