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Thursday, October 27, 2005

It's a good day

JB

to be a 50 year old conservative federal judge with impeccable credentials.

You might just get a promotion.

One assumes that Messrs. Wilkinson and McConnell are now among the front runners for a Supreme Court appointment. Michael Luttig, Edith Jones and Janice Rodgers Brown are also in the hunt, but they are more likely to raise hackles with the Gang of 14.

And don't forget Attorney General Gonzales, who suddenly is looking good, even though Democrats will be (justly) upset about the role he played in the Administration's detention and interrogation policies.


Comments:

Gonzales got shot down by the base way back when Bush was only floating trial balloons. He'll only be nominated now if Bush is more interested in throwing a tantrum, than putting somebody on the Court.
 

A couple minor observations:

1. Wilkinson is 61, i think, not 50. I'd think that would tend to cut against the usual GOP grain on SCOTUS nominations (it's just another example of the in-context bizarreness of the Miers nomination that she, too, was over 60).

2. Ironically enough, over at Volokh, David Bernstein is suggesting that McConnell's decision in your book on Brown could be fatal if he's nominated....
 

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