Who will be the next Chief Justice?

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Posted: 9/3/2005 8:01:15 PM EDT

I'm thinking Bush might "push" it and pick Thomas...what do you think?

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:08:31 PM EDT

[#1]

+1 Thomas

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:13:49 PM EDT

[#2]

Awesome idea but what's the process? Aren't they selected based on a vote and scenority? Patty

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:14:19 PM EDT

[#3]

NOBODY. DumoRats will block everything at this point

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:18:58 PM EDT

[#4]

Scalia.

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:19:58 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
+1 Thomas

OH hell yeah.

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:21:45 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
I'm thinking Bush might "push" it and pick Thomas...what do you think?

Thomas or Scalia...

Those are the 2 that have been floated...

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:22:14 PM EDT

[#7]

Scalia or Thomas, either way he can't go wrong.

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:23:07 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Awesome idea but what's the process? Aren't they selected based on a vote and scenority? Patty

I believe the nomination for Chief Justice is the same as any other Supreme Court nomination, regardless if the the nomination is an Associate Justice. If he picked Thomas, he would also have to pick another nominee to take the 9th spot (so we could be looking at 3 fights in the Senate over the Supreme Court). Bush could pick someone new as Chief Justice I believe, but I highly doubt that would happen. This is something that hasn't happened since Reagan promoted Rehnquist in '82...

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:24:55 PM EDT

[#9]

I just had a Long Dong Silver flashback...

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:37:44 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Bush could pick someone new as Chief Justice I believe, but I highly doubt that would happen. This is something that hasn't happened since Reagan promoted Rehnquist in '82...

Rehnquist was a sitting justice when Reagan nominated him for the Chief spot in '86. Rehnquist was a Nixon nominee. You are correct though, the President does not have to pick a sitting justice for the top spot. He can do a "two-fer".

Posted: 9/3/2005 8:58:13 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Bush could pick someone new as Chief Justice I believe, but I highly doubt that would happen. This is something that hasn't happened since Reagan promoted Rehnquist in '82...

Rehnquist was a sitting justice when Reagan nominated him for the Chief spot in '86. Rehnquist was a Nixon nominee. You are correct though, the President does not have to pick a sitting justice for the top spot. He can do a "two-fer".

Yeah, when Nixon picked Rehnquist he was the youngest Justice on the Court. At least Nixon got one nomination right lol...

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:06:03 PM EDT

[#12]

Scalia.

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:07:55 PM EDT

[#13]

I'm hoping for Justice Thomas, and President GW Bush should nominate Karl Rove for the SCOTUS as a joke and see how many Libs pass out.

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:12:29 PM EDT

[#14]

ASHCROFT!!!

choke on this, assholes.

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:15:05 PM EDT

[#15]

+1 Thomas, would be a good move due to his conservative status and voting history. Good Justice, good man.

Second choice that would make sense politically anyway would be O'Connor. If only for the fact that she has proven to be more of a moderate than originally predicted.

Thomas would be a better choice though.

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:21:40 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
+1 Thomas, would be a good move due to his conservative status and voting history. Good Justice, good man.

Second choice that would make sense politically anyway would be O'Connor. If only for the fact that she has proven to be more of a moderate than originally predicted.

Thomas would be a better choice though.

Um
O'Conner resigned.

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:33:09 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Second choice that would make sense politically anyway would be O'Connor. If only for the fact that she has proven to be more of a moderate than originally predicted.

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I swear I am laughing so hard. I cn't hrdly tipe......

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:34:12 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
ASHCROFT!!!

choke on this, assholes.

Good Luck getting him confirmed. Would be great for the 2nd amendment. Patty

Posted: 9/3/2005 9:35:05 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
ASHCROFT!!!

choke on this, assholes.

Pure moxie.

Posted: 9/4/2005 4:57:44 AM EDT

[#20]

Thomas would be awesome

Posted: 9/4/2005 6:53:15 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
I'm thinking Bush might "push" it and pick Thomas...what do you think?

Not a chance. Thomas hasn`t written any particulary brilliant decisions on the court, and nobody wants to hear about Anita Hill again. I`m hoping for Scalia myself. Brilliant constitutional scholar and firebreathing conservative, that would be a knockdown, dragout confirmation vote!

Posted: 9/4/2005 7:39:26 AM EDT

[#22]

Ginsburg!!!

Posted: 9/4/2005 7:41:28 AM EDT

[#23]

Thomas or Scalia, then replace the one chosen with another Bork, Thomas or Scalia.

Let the libs wet their nappies!

Posted: 9/4/2005 8:17:44 AM EDT

[#24]

Scalia, Thomas, Roberts in that order.

Posted: 9/4/2005 8:18:45 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I'm thinking Bush might "push" it and pick Thomas...what do you think?

Thomas or Scalia...

Those are the 2 that have been floated...

Only way to go...

Posted: 9/4/2005 9:43:25 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Scalia.

+1 and we couldn't ask for a better pro gun judge. Patty

Posted: 9/4/2005 9:49:56 AM EDT

[#27]

I had a libtard coworker make a comment like "great, just great. How he gets to appoint another one". I was all warm and fuzzy inside (if it wasn't for the minor little inconvenience of it being midnight and I was sitting in the Volunteer Medical Personnel call center taking calls)

Posted: 9/4/2005 9:51:51 AM EDT

[#28]

Bush will end up picking someone no one likes because that's what happens when there is a compromise even though the wimpy Republicans have the majority.

Posted: 9/4/2005 9:53:36 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Awesome idea but what's the process? Aren't they selected based on a vote and scenority? Patty

Posted: 9/4/2005 9:54:54 AM EDT

[#30]

The Democraps are so anti-Bush that they'd try to derail Bush's nomination of Hillary Clinton.

CJ

Posted: 9/4/2005 9:55:36 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
ASHCROFT!!!

choke on this, assholes.

Posted: 9/4/2005 12:30:37 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
The Democraps are so anti-Bush that they'd try to derail Bush's nomination of Hillary Clinton.

CJ

They'd probably oppose that because they want a woman on there, not Hitlery lol...

Posted: 9/4/2005 12:34:40 PM EDT

[#33]

I think he will go with Roberts or whom ever he nominates in the next few weeks. This is based on what some of the talking heads are saying. Janis Rogers Brown would be the way to go. A conservative, a woman and a minority. This would cause them poor libtards to go postal. If not her Scalia would do nicely.