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SCOTUS Watch
Monday, 2005 October 31 - 12:58 am
Bush is expected to nominate a new candidate to the Supreme Court Monday.

Well, here we go. Bush seems likely to name his next SCOTUS candidate Monday, and the word on the street is that it'll be either Samuel Alito or J. Michael Luttig. Both are federal appeals court judges, and both are strongly conservative... in other words, they're both the sort of anti-Miers candidates that right-wing conservatives are hoping for. And both raise the specter of a Senate filibuster by Democrats.

Alito has been nicknamed "Scalito" due to similarities in his judicial philosophies with the ultra-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

I peeked at a few conservative discussion forums, and they're pretty geeked about getting Alito or Luttig. They're much less enthusiastic about federal appeals court judge Karen Williams, who is (gasp!) married to a Democrat. And they would shoot themselves if Bush nominated Consuelo Callahan, a judge who has drawn bipartisan support.

And it's probably safe to say that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has no chance whatsoever, being yet another Bush crony, with no judicial experience and an ambiguously liberal slant.

Whatever happens, I think the politics will get pretty ugly pretty fast this week. But no doubt Bush would rather see anything in the headlines but news about Scooter Libby's indictment, eh? (Psst... Karl Rove, you might want to polish up that resume pretty soon.)
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Comment #1 from Crouching Hamster (Guest)
2005 Oct 31 - 3:21 am : #
Actually, Gonzales is out - unless the reasons Harriet Miers gave for withdrawing were, um, bullshit. He'd have the same "executive privilege" obstacle to getting all of his authored documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she claims she had.

Diane Sykes (from my alma mater!) was on the long list. She's out too, though. She doens't have a very long track record. And she's no Justice Roberts.

I agree. It will be an ugly week.
Comment #2 from Ken (realkato)
2005 Oct 31 - 9:59 am : #
Aieee, it's Scalito. I sense a filibuster coming.
Comment #3 from MonoCerdo (Guest)
2005 Oct 31 - 5:35 pm : #
This can't be good.

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