Redstate.org thinks its Edith Clement for SC

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http://redstate.org/

“ Conservatives do not need to worry about Clement, they need to worry about Justice Kennedy” First, we know now for sure that it will not be Gonzales. I am fully comfortable with that assessment.
Second, what do we know we know about Clement? We know that Clement had a private meeting at the White House late last week. In fact, the Note is going further and Noting that Clement is the only one to have had a private meeting - so far as anyone has been able to pin down.

Clement is known to be pro-defendant in civil rights cases and is like O'Connor on business issues, which means that conservatives will be pleased with her on those issues. There is no indication that Clement takes an expansive reading of the Commerce Clause and every indication that she does, in fact, take the opposite view.

Sources close to the White House tell me that the pick has been made, but are not giving me the name. Third party sources who would be among the first to know are saying that there is every indication that Clement is the pick. In fact, we are beginning to see conservatives get on board and shift from Edith B. Clement having too thin a papertrail to her being "with us."

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