Speculators eye Cornyn for Supreme Court post

[Judi Lynn]

June 6, 2005, 9:47PM

Speculators eye Cornyn for Supreme Court post
Texas senator fits the profile but says he is not actively looking
By SAMANTHA LEVINE
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is flattered to be mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court and would consider the job if it were offered. But the freshman lawmaker is hardly seeking a new engagement.
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Mum's the word
The White House has kept quiet on its choices for the Supreme Court, which could have a vacancy if ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist steps down or another of its aging jurists retires. But the silence hasn't stopped legal analysts from speculating on whom President Bush might nominate to the high court.

The short list often includes Michael McConnell, a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; J. Michael Luttig, a Texan on the Richmond, Va.-based 4th Circuit; John Roberts Jr. of the District of Columbia circuit; and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, another former Texas justice.

Among those thought to be in a second tier of possible candidates are Republican Cornyn; Larry Thompson, who served as deputy to former Attorney General John Ashcroft; Ted Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general; Emilio Miller Garza and Edith Jones, judges on the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit; Samuel Alito Jr., a judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit; and U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa of Texas.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3213889

[saltpoint]

1. I would like it if John Cornyn is named U.S. Ambassador to

Pluto.

Effective this afternoon at the latest.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. So if some Christian Jihadi™

shot him in an "understandable" rage about judicial activism, would this count as irony?

[Plaid Adder]

3. Verbatim quote from my partner the lawyer

who was originally licensed in Texas, when I read her this headline:

"No! Cornyn's not smart enough to be on the Supreme Court!"

Oh well, Bush isn't smart enough to be president either, but there we are...

The Plaid Adder

[Lindsay]

5. Cornyn's not smart enough

to come in out of the rain, let alone sit on the Supreme Court.

But, of course, we can count on the shrub to find the worst possible nominee for any position.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

4. So they name Cornbrain to the judgeship, give Goodhair the Senate seat

and KBH gets the gubernational nomination -that way KKKarl doesn't have to worry about his party disintegrating in Texas.

The nation and the state of Texas on the other hand will not be so fortunate:scared:

[MN ChimpH8R]

6. Justice Box-Turtle??

Jeebus help us. :grr: :banghead: :grr:

[Protagoras]

7. I bet Orin Hatch is pissed

He's been selling his soul to the neocons for over a decade in order to get a crack at the SCOTUS...to have Cornyn leapfrog him has goota feel like the shattering of a dream.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...oh...well it could also happen to Cornyn...and Delay...and Frist...and....

[Raiden]

8. I would shoot myself if that fuckin' idiot makes the Sup. Court!

That would be THE end of justice in America. I hate that man almost more than my senior senator - Bitch McConnell!


Ain't he the one that said something like letting gay people get married is like letting box turtles get married? John Stewart had a lot of fun with that...

[Raiden]

9. Shoot - Double Post!!

x( :mad:

[Roland99]

10. Money, money, money. Money runs this nation and controls the gov't

It takes a revolution.