Focus for Supreme Court Pick Is Said to Be on Diversity

The New York Times ^ | September 22, 2005 | By ELISABETH BUMILLER

[alessandrofiaschi]

President Bush is focused on Hispanics, African-Americans and women

Janice R. Brown... is my first-best dream; Priscilla R. Owen, my second one. I bet the second.

[wingnutx]

J.R. Brown #1

[West Coast Conservative]

Janice Rogers Brown is my first pick.

[hoosiermama]

That makes three of us.....J. R. Brown.....Onyx we need your vote too!

[thoughtomator]

Focus of Democrats and other assorted moonbats for Supreme Court Pick Is Said to Be on Diversity

There. Corrected.

[onyx]

Janice Rogers Brown.

I'm a praying :)

[Williams]

Specter's suggestion is pure insanity and cowardice. No other explanation.

[Daralundy]

Do they actually know what he is focused on? Or are they making it up?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Janice Rogers Brown

She's a conservative justice, people...see the NY Slimes wants Bush to choose a liberal woman, black, or Hispanic.

[Lancey Howard]

Janice R. Brown... is my first-best dream; Priscilla R. Owen, my second one. I bet the second.

Ditto that. Now, does Bush have the cojones?

[AZ_Cowboy]

Bump to J.R. Brown. Now let's see if he'll make the attempt.

[hoosiermama]

Is any of this storm coming near you? Have you heard from cajun girl?

[dmc8576]

I would place Edith Jones far in ahead of Priscilla Owen. First, we know for a fact that Jones is a Scalia-type. She has had a long record of being a Scalia brand of judge. Owen, while most consider her conservative, is not as ardent a conservative, or so it would seem, as Jones. Jones would be to the right what Ginsburg is to the left. To borrow a phrase from my father, Edith Jones is a "mean ass conservative", and a mean ass conservative is exactly what this court needs.

[msnimje]

I watched Janice Rogers Brown's confirmation hearings on C-span today and she was no where near as smooth and in command as JGRjr was last week. That may be too high a bar to set but if she is chosen she will need some coaching for a better showing.

[Soul Seeker]

There is not one person that can convince me the NYT's knows what the President's intentions are.

There is not one person that can convince me anyone that would know, is leaking anything to the press.

Here's something I will throw out as very likely. The President has probably had his preferred selection decided long in advance, as he had Roberts in his sights long ago. The rest is just a game he has to play with the Senate.

[alessandrofiaschi]

Both are truly conservative in the mode of Scalia (instead Roberts is not a "Scalito"), but Jones is older than Owen. Which is a very important issue, too.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Why don't I believe this story? Oh, New York Times. Never Mind.

[Salvation]

I would like Jones too.

[onyx]

No and no I haven't. She's in Baton Rouge, right?

[alessandrofiaschi]

Jones was born in 1949 (in PA, but now she is Texans), Owen in 1954 (in TX)