"Bush Plans Meeting on O'Connor Replacement"

[hopein08]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050917/ap_on_go_pr_wh/roberts

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White House counsel Harriett Miers has called selected members of the Senate within the past day or two to solicit their views on replacements for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, these officials said.

At the same time, Bush has invited four key senators to a breakfast meeting at the White House next Wednesday to discuss filling O'Connor's seat. The guest list includes Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., as well as Sen. Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the panel's senior Democrat.

Officials said Miers had called at least two Senate Democrats, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Evan Bayh of Indiana. Mikulski's office declined to confirm the call, even though an aide had confided earlier in the day to a roomful of other Democrats that it occurred. Bayh's spokesman said he did not know the reason for Miers' call.

Why would they call Bayh and Mikulski? Are there possibilities from their states?

[Eugene]

1. Bush to Meet With Senators Over Second Vacancy on Court

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/politics/politicsspecial1/17court.html

Bush to Meet With Senators Over Second Vacancy on Court

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: September 17, 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - President Bush plans to meet Wednesday with
Republican and Democratic Senate leaders about filling the Supreme
Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor, Senate aides from both parties said.

Mr. Bush has said he plans to move quickly to nominate a successor to
Justice O'Connor, a pivotal swing vote on the court. But conservative
allies of the White House say they do not expect him to select someone
until the full Senate votes on the confirmation of Judge John G.
Roberts Jr. as chief justice later this month. The Senate Judiciary
Committee is expected to vote on the Roberts nomination on Thursday.
Justice O'Connor has said she will continue to sit with the court
until her replacement is confirmed.

Senate aides said Mr. Bush has invited Senator Arlen Specter, the
Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
and Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee's ranking
Democratic member, as well as Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the
majority leader, and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic
leader.

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[rsmith6621]

2. I Nominate

Randi Rhodes

[stevebreeze]

3. I am sure this is the same sort of "advise" he did with Roberts

Talk to a lot of people and then he will do whatever the hell he wants anyways.

[Yupster]

4. Why call Mikulski?

It's clear.

Unemployed, looking for political work, further to the right than Scalia, and African-American.

It's Alan Keyes !!!

Hurry back to Maryland Alan.