Speaking to George W this morning, he he said my
chances weren't good. That make you even happier?
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>Well, that certainly cheered me up.
>Another reason to move to Canada.
>
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> >Possible Nominees to the Supreme Court
> >
> >Samuel A. Alito, Jr., 55, is a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of
> >Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
> >
> > Nominated by President George H. W. Bush to the court in 1990,
> >Alito was educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School. His
> >work experience includes stints as assistant to the Solicitor
> >General and deputy assistant to the Attorney General during the
> >Reagan Administration, and as U.S. Attorney for the District of New
> >Jersey.
> >
> > Alito has voted to uphold regulations on abortion, notably as the
> >lone dissenter in a 1991 case in which the 3rd Circuit struck down a
> >Pennsylvania law's requirement that women tell their husbands before
> >having an abortion. The three-judge panel preserved most elements of
> >the abortion control law, including a 24-hour waiting period and a
> >requirement that minors notify their parents. But Alito argued in
> >his dissent that the spousal notification provision did not impose
> >an "undue burden" and also should have been upheld.
> >
> > In other rulings, Alito wrote for the majority in 1997 in finding
> >that Jersey City officials did not violate the Constitution with a
> >holiday display that included a creche, a menorah and secular
> >symbols of the Christmas season. In 1999, he and his colleagues
> >found that a Newark policy that allowed medical, but not religious,
> >exemptions to a ban on police officers having beards violated the
> >First Amendment.
> >
> > -- Christopher Lee
> >
> > Sen. John Cornyn, 53, is the junior
>senator from Texas, elected in 2002.
> >
> > Since his election, Cornyn -- nicknamed "Johnny Boy" by Bush -- has
> >been an outspoken proponent of the president's administration and
> >the conservative branch of the GOP. But prior to arriving in
> >Washington, Cornyn's reputation as Texas Attorney General and as a
> >Texas Supreme Court justice was that of a moderate Republican.
> >
> > His seven-year tenure on the court was characterized by decisions
> >favoring business and limiting government control. But he also wrote
> >the majority decision in 1995 upholding Texas' so-called Robin Hood
> >school finance law in which wealthier school districts share money
> >with poorer ones, a plan that Republicans have been trying to
> >abolish since.
> >
> > During his four years as state attorney general, Cornyn angered
> >some local Republicans for trying, unsuccessfully, to modify a
> >ruling by a previous attorney general that eliminated affirmation
> >action programs at Texas colleges. He sued auto and home insurance
> >firms for underpaying claims and for deceptive trade practices and
> >prosecuted unscrupulous nursing home operators, as well as appeared
> >before the U. S. Supreme Court to defend a small Texas school
> >district that broadcast student-led prayer before football games.
> >The court ruled against the school-sponsored practice.
> >
> > In the Senate, Cornyn, 53, has led efforts to defend Bush's
> >judicial nominees and to fight filibusters of nominees, writing
> >National Review articles that label opponents as "liberal special
> >interest groups" engaged in "vicious politics." He spearheaded the
> >push to adopt constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and
> >flag-burning and favors school vouchers, prayer in public schools,
> >extending the Bush-initiated tax cuts beyond 2010 and privatizing
> >Social Security. He opposes abortion and partial birth abortions
> >except when a woman's life is endangered.
> >
> > -- Sylvia Moreno
> >
> > Emilio M. Garza, 57, is a judge for U.S. Court of Appeals for the
> >5th Circuit and has been on the short list for a Supreme Court
> >nomination before.
> >
> > Justice Department officials interviewed Garza in 1991, when he was
> >among a handful of candidates being considered by President George
> >H. W. Bush to succeed Justice Thurgood Marshall. But Garza then had
> >only three years of experience on the federal bench and his views on
> >many issues were unknown. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas instead.
> >
> > Garza, who will turn 58 in August, would make history as the first
> >Hispanic ever nominated to the high court.
> >
> > The former Marine captain earned bachelor's and master's degrees
> >from the University of Notre Dame and graduated from the University
> >of Texas School of Law. He practiced law in his native San Antonio
> >for 11 years and served as a state district judge for a year before
> >President Reagan nominated him to the U.S. District Court 1988.
> >Three years later Bush elevated him to the 5th Circuit.
> >
> > Since then Garza has developed a reliably conservative judicial
> >record that includes criticism of the Roe V. Wade abortion decision
> >of 1973. In 1997, Garza sided with the majority in upholding a lower
> >court decision that struck down parts of a Louisiana law requiring
> >parents to be notified when a minor child seeks an abortion. In his
> >concurring opinion, however, he expressed doubts about whether Roe
> >v. Wade was well-grounded in the Constitution.
> >
> > "[I]n the absence of governing constitutional text, I believe that
> >ontological issues such as abortion are more properly decided in the
> >political and legislative arenas," Garza wrote. ". . . . [I]t is
> >unclear to me that the [Supreme] Court itself still believes that
> >abortion is a 'fundamental right' under the Fourteenth Amendment. .
> >. ."
> >
> > Garza would be the first Hispanic chief justice.
> >
> > -Christopher Lee
> >
> > Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, 49, has less time on the
> >bench than the other likely Supreme Court candidates but has one
> >crucial advantage: the close friendship of President Bush.
> >
> > Gonzales grew up as the son of impoverished Mexican immigrants and
> >went on to graduate from Harvard University law school. Bush, then
> >the governor of Texas, hired him as his general counsel and later
> >appointed him to the Texas Supreme Court. Bush brought Gonzales to
> >Washington as his White House counsel in 2001.
> >
> > The Senate narrowly approved Gonzales as attorney general in
> >February after he faced sharp criticism from Democrats over the role
> >he played in approving controversial detention and antiterrorism
> >policies.
> >
> > Yet legal experts say that the strongest opposition to Gonzales as
> >a Supreme Court candidate would likely come from the right, due
> >primarily to positions he has taken on issues like abortion and
> >affirmative action.
> >
> > While on the bench in Texas, Gonzales sided with a majority in a
> >2000 case allowing an unidentified 17-year-old girl to obtain an
> >abortion without notifying her parents, finding that she qualified
> >for an exception to that state's parental notification law. In a
> >concurring opinion, Gonzales said that to side with dissenters in
> >the case would amount to "an unconscionable act of judicial
> >activism."
> >
> > Gonzales also testified at his attorney general confirmation
> >hearing earlier this year that he recognized the Roe v. Wade
> >decision legalizing abortion as "the law of the land."
> >
> > Advisors close to the White House have said that Bush likes the
> >idea that Gonzales would be the first Hispanic chief justice.
> >(Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, a justice in the 1930s, was of Portuguese
> >and Jewish descent.)
> >
> > -- Dan Eggen
> >
> > J. Michael Luttig, 51, has been a favorite in conservative legal
> >circles for decades, going back to his clerkship for then-Judge
> >Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in
> >1982-83.
> >
> > A graduate of Washington and Lee University and the University of
> >Virginia law school, Luttig also clerked for Chief Justice Warren E.
> >Burger in 1983-84, practiced law in the private sector from
> >1985-1989, and then served in a variety of Justice Department
> >positions during the first Bush administration, where his duties
> >included helping current Justices Clarence Thomas and David H.
> >Souter win Senate confirmation.
> >
> > President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the Richmond-based U.S.
> >Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1991, when Luttig was
> >just 37 years old. Ever since, he has been spoken of as a likely
> >choice for the Supreme Court should a Republican president have a
> >chance to name him. His many supporters on the right, including
> >ex-law clerks sprinkled throughout the Bush administration, think
> >now is Luttig's time.
> >
> > This has sometimes led him to clash with other members of the 4th
> >Circuit, including fellow conservative J. Harvie Wilkinson, also
> >thought of as a Supreme Court contender. In 2000, he dissented from
> >a ruling by Wilkinson that upheld a Fish and Wildlife Service
> >regulation limiting the killing of endangered wolves on private
> >land. He also disagreed with Wilkinson in 2003, when he wrote a
> >dissenting opinion that supported the Bush administration's position
> >that it could designate and detain "enemy combatants" with little
> >judicial scrutiny.
> >
> > In 1998, he upheld Virginia's ban on the procedure known as a
> >partial birth abortion -- but agreed to let it be struck down after
> >the Supreme Court struck down a similar Nebraska law in 2000.
> >
> > -- Charles Lane
> >
> > Michael W. McConnell, 50, has been a judge on the U.S. Court of
> >Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, since his appointment
> >by President Bush in 2002.
> >
> > Before then, he was mostly a legal academic, having served as a law
> >professor at the University of Chicago from 1985-1996 and
> >subsequently at the University of Utah.
> >
> > McConnell's good standing with the legal professoriate helped him
> >immeasurably during the confirmation process; more than 300 of his
> >fellow professors, including many liberals, endorsed him for the
> >bench.
> >
> > An eclectic thinker who served both as a law clerk for the liberal
> >icon Justice William Brennan and as an official in the Reagan
> >administration, McConnell has expressed his opinions on a wide range
> >of subjects, including a Wall Street Journal op-ed in December 2000
> >in which he expressed doubts about the legal reasoning of the
> >Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision.
> >
> > But his outspoken disagreement with Roe v. Wade has earned him the
> >condemnation of liberal advocacy groups (though at his confirmation
> >hearing he called it "settled law.") Conservatives like his writings
> >favoring government "neutrality" toward religion.
> >
> > As a judge, McConnell has upheld Congress's power to criminalize
> >the possession of homemade child pornography; in a case soon to be
> >reviewed by the court, he voted to prohibit enforcement of federal
> >anti-drug laws against people who consume hallucinogenic tea as part
> >of a religious ritual.
> >
> > -- Charles Lane
> >
> > John G. Roberts, 50, has long been considered one of the
> >Republicans' heavyweights amid the largely Democratic Washington
> >legal establishment. Roberts was appointed to the U.S. Court of
> >Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2003 by President George W. Bush.
> >(He was also nominated by the first President Bush, but never
> >received a Senate vote). Previously, he practiced law at D.C.'s
> >Hogan & Hartson from 1986-1989 and 1993-2003. Between 1989 and 1993,
> >he was the Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the first Bush
> >administration, helping formulate the administration's position in
> >Supreme Court cases. During the Reagan administration, he served as
> >an aide to Attorney General William French Smith from 1981-1982 and
> >as a an aide to White House Counsel Fred Fielding from 1982-1986.
> >
> > With impeccable credentials -- Roberts attended Harvard College and
> >Harvard Law School, clerked for Justice William H. Rehnquist on the
> >Supreme Court and has argued frequently before the court -- the
> >question marks about Roberts have always been ideological. While his
> >Republican party loyalties are undoubted, earning him the opposition
> >of liberal advocacy groups, he is not a "movement conservative," and
> >some on the party's right-wing doubt his commitment to their cause.
> >His paper record is thin: as Deputy Solicitor General in 1990, he
> >argued in favor of a government regulation that banned
> >abortion-related counseling by federally-funded family planning
> >programs. A line in his brief noted the Bush administration's belief
> >that Roe v. Wade should be overruled.
> >
> > As a judge on the D.C. Circuit, Roberts voted with two colleagues
> >to uphold the arrest and detention of a twelve-year old girl for
> >eating french fries on the Metro train, though his opinion noted
> >that "[n]o one is very happy about the events that led to this
> >litigation." In another case, Roberts wrote a dissenting opinion
> >that suggested Congress might lack the power under the
> >Constitution's Commerce Clause to regulate the treatment of a
> >certain species of wildlife.
> >
> > -- Charles Lane
> >
> > Theodore B. Olson, 64, is the former Solicitor General and now an
> >attorney in private practice in Washington at the firm Gibson, Dunn
> >& Crutcher.
> >
> > He has been with the firm since 1965 except for two forays into
> >government, serving as President Bush's Solicitor General from
> >2001-2004 and as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal
> >Counsel for three years during President Ronald Reagan's first term.
> >
> > He argued Bush's case before the Supreme Court that decided the
> >outcome of the disputed 2000 presidential election.
> >
> > His other cases have included representing Cheryl Hopwood, who
> >argued that affirmative action in admissions at the University of
> >Texas was a violation of the Constitution. In 1996, a federal
> >appeals court agreed with Olson and Hopwood that the university's
> >policy was unconstitutional. That same year, he represented the
> >Virginia Military Institute before the Supreme Court against claims
> >that the school's admissions policy discriminated against women and
> >lost.
> >
> > Olson was legal counsel to Reagan during the investigation of the
> >Iran-contra affair. And he represented Jonathan Pollard, who was
> >convicted of selling government secrets to Israel, in his failed bid
> >for a reduction of his life sentence.
> >
> > While President Bill Clinton was in office, Olson railed against
> >the administration in the conservative American Spectator magazine,
> >where he was a contributing writer and a member of its board of
> >directors.
> >
> > But his passion threatened his confirmation as solicitor general.
> >During hearings, Democrats asked Olson if he played a role in the
> >"Arkansas Project," an attempt by American Spectator to uncover
> >scandals involving President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
> >Olson said he did not, but a Spectator staff writer, David Brock,
> >told the Judiciary Committee that Olson was directly involved. Olson
> >was confirmed, but not until after an inquiry into charges that his
> >testimony was untruthful.
> >
> > --Darryl Fears
> >
> > Larry D. Thompson, 59, is a senior vice president and general
> >counsel for PepsiCo.
> >
> > He was the deputy Attorney General--the No. 2 person at the Justice
> >Department--for much of President Bush's first term.
> >
> > During his tenure at Justice, he had daily involvement in the war
> >on terror and headed the corporate crime task force that pursued
> >prosecutions against Enron Corp., Worldcom Inc. and HealthSouth Corp.
> >
> > He was one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the Bush
> >administration and if appointed to the court, would be the third
> >African American justice.
> >
> > Thompson is a longtime acquaintance of Justice Thomas and was a
> >member of the legal team that assisted Thomas during his
> >confirmation hearings in 1991.
> >
> > Around the same time, Thompson angered some civil rights groups
> >when he wrote that certain black leaders "stressed . . . black
> >people as victims" and ignored problems like their "lack of respect
> >for the law, kids having children too soon and fathers who were not
> >taking their responsibility seriously."
> >
> > He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, served
> >as a U.S. Attorney in Georgia and practiced at the Atlanta firm of
> >King & Spalding.
> >
> > --Darryl Fears
> >
> > J. Harvie Wilkinson, 61, was appointed to the 4th Circuit by
> >President Reagan in 1984.
> >
> > Before his appointment he was the No. 2 official in the Justice
> >Department's Civil Rights Office from 1982-1983.
> >
> > Unlike most other leading candidates for the court, Wilkinson has
> >not practiced law in the private sector; he has more experience in
> >journalism and teaching.
> >
> > From 1978-1982, he was the editorial page editor of the
> >Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, and from 1973-1978, he was a
> >professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he
> >received his own law degree before moving on to a clerkship for
> >Justice Lewis F. Powell.
> >
> > His paper trail is, accordingly, immense. He has written not only
> >legal opinions, but also books, speeches and journal articles in
> >which he sketches a self-consciously moderate conservative
> >philosophy. A typical example was a 2003 Virginia Law Review article
> >titled "Why Conservative Jurisprudence is Compassionate."
> >
> > Powell, an old family friend, is a role model and mentor for
> >Wilkinson, whose own gentle, courtly manners remind some of the late
> >justice's demeanor.
> >
> > His rulings have included a 1987 opinion striking down a minority
> >set-aside program for city contractors in Richmond and a 1996
> >opinion upholding the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for
> >homosexual service members.
> >
> > -- Charles Lane
> >
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