(noon. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his intentions to retire during the Obama administration. This is not unexpected news, he is 89 years old. There is now discussion and much speculation about his replacement. The three names most prominently being discussed are:
The White House has declined to comment on its preparations for selecting a successor, but those close to the process repeatedly have mentioned three names as likely to merit close consideration.
One is Mr. Obama’s solicitor general, Elena Kagan, a former dean of Harvard Law School who was considered for the nomination that ultimately went to Justice Sonia Sotomayor […]
Liberals see a surer voice in another finalist for last year’s vacancy, Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. On a court known for its intellectual heft, Judge Wood has proven a serious counterweight to such influential conservative judges as Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook, legal observers say […]
A third oft-mentioned name is Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
As a Justice Department official in the Clinton administration, Judge Garland oversaw investigations into the Oklahoma City federal building bombing and the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski.
There is some wariness about SG Kagan who has defended executive power
This will not necessarily shift the Roberts Court but it will have a long term impact for the next generation.
h/t to David Dayen @ FDL
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…. title typo. add “a” to last word.
Creepy guy.
he doesn’t nominate Cass Sunstein. I don’t trust Obama, and can see him dropping CS on us anyway.
handle on the toilet.
We’d at least know the president isn’t completely humorless with a choice like that.
… so let another war over women’s reproductive rights, campaign unlimited finance (corporations are people, too, sob, don’t hurt their feelings!), and the role of the unitary executive begin.
My guess is that in an effort to be “fair” and “bipartisanshipthingeeloveable” he’ll nominate a conservative, either male or female. Elena Kagan is family with the PNAC warmonger crew https://www.docudharma.com/diar… (if you check her wiki page it currently has no information about her parent’s names, for the past year, is that a sign, or what ? ) and the MSM is speaking a lot about her “dazzling” brilliance, so my guess would be we’ll get some sleeper male chickenhawk “moderate” nobody’s ever heard of.
ABC and Disney Luv Her
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Supre…